Perhaps it would do at the beginning of a chapter.

Chapters often begin quite differently from the way they go on, you know." Katharine read what her mother had written.

She might have been a schoolmaster criticizing a child's essay.

Her face gave Mrs.
Hilbery, who watched it anxiously, no ground for hope.
"It's very beautiful," she stated, "but, you see, mother, we ought to go from point to point--" "Oh, I know," Mrs.Hilbery exclaimed.

"And that's just what I can't do.
Things keep coming into my head.