From out the nothing a conscious something I have evoked.

It would be most ungracious--ungrateful--of Ann to refuse to be what I made her.

I invented her.

By all laws of decency, she must be Ann.
Indeed, she _is_ Ann." And Katie was truly beginning to think so.

Katie's imagination coquetted successfully with conviction.
Ann, or more accurately the idea of Ann, fascinated her.