Who knows?
Posterity, perhaps, will know.

That's the time he works, in his cabinet, at the history of the Princesses.

But I had to send for them--hadn't I?
And then I want to see my mother sit there where you sit, and say good-by to her.

Perhaps, after all, I don't know her, and she will have some surprise for me.
Don't think you know her yet, yourself; perhaps she may surprise YOU.
But if I can't see Claire, I don't care for anything.

I have been thinking of it--and in my dreams, too.