"I used to know her husband, and her too a little, before she'd joined the Pietists.

" "What is a Pietist, papa?" asked Kitty, dismayed to find that what she prized so highly in Madame Stahl had a name.

"I don't quite know myself.

I only know that she thanks God for everything, for every misfortune, and thanks God too that her husband died.

And that's rather droll, as they didn't get on together.