It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood at the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any of the matters I have rapidly sketched.

She was not turned to the past, but to the immediate, impending hour.

She had reason to expect a scene, and she was not fond of scenes.

She was not asking herself what she should say to her visitor; this question had already been answered.

What he would say to her--that was the interesting issue.