Joan was under no delusions about herself.

If those were His terms, well, then, so far as she could see, He wasn't going to be of much use to her.

Besides, if He hated naughty children, why did He make them naughty?
At a moderate estimate quite half Joan's wickedness, so it seemed to Joan, came to her unbidden.

Take for example that self-examination before the cheval glass.

The idea had come into her mind.