She renounced the world and entered a convent.

【world】她宣布脱离尘世，进了修道院。

Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.

如果她曾是一篇道德故事中的女主人公，她就该在生命中的这个阶段变得非常圣洁，摒弃尘世，戴着一顶禁欲苦行的帽子四处行善，口袋里装着宗教小册子。