And there on her dressing-table were the multitudinous implements of silver that had to do with her toilet.
After what she had been through, this, indeed, was comfort.
But as consciousness grew clearer, her forgotten troubles and her dangers returned to her.

For a brief period alarm possessed her.

Then reason began to assert itself; and the hope which the night before had been hardly more than desperation began to take on the character of confidence.

She saw possibilities.

And the longer she considered, the more and greater the possibilities were.