She had seen herself at last, in the picture she was studying, suddenly jump from the coach; whereupon, frankly, with the wonder of the sight, her eyes opened wider and her heart stood still for a moment.

She looked at the person so acting as if this person were somebody else, waiting with intensity to see what would follow.

The person had taken a decision--which was evidently because an impulse long gathering had at last felt a sharpest pressure.

Only how was the decision to be applied ?--what, in particular, would the figure in the picture do?
She looked about her, from the middle of the room, under the force of this question, as if THERE, exactly, were the field of action involved.

Then, as the door opened again, she recognised, whatever the action, the form, at any rate, of a first opportunity.