" There was an inexpressible mocking irony in the tones in which this was said, that made itself felt to the finely vitalized spirit of the youth, though to all the rest it sounded like the accredited average pious talk which is more or less the current coin of religious organizations.

As for the happiness of it, she carried about with her a constant sense that something wonderful had happened, was happeningand was yet to happenwhich made no task too hard for her newly vitalized spirit.