Why does Anne refuse to allow her mother to hear her prayers? Anne does not feel very close to her mother.
Anne prefers to pray with her sister.
Anne is too sleepy to pray that night.
Anne does not want to pray at all.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?