Then, she didn't know yet exactly in what way it could come about, she would do something to bring the two together again, and wipe out the bitter misunderstanding.
It was a very pleasing dream.

That and others like it kept her sitting by the window till nearly bedtime.

Then, just before the girls came up-stairs, she turned up the lamp and made an entry in her journal.

With the fear that some prying eye might some day see that page, she omitted all names, using only initials.

It would have puzzled the Sphinx herself to have deciphered that entry, unless she had guessed that the initials stood for titles instead of names.