It was there she kept her girlish treasure trove, the tortoiseshell combs, her child of Mary badge, the whiterose scent, the eyebrowleine, her alabaster pouncetbox and the ribbons to change when her things came home from the wash and there were some beautiful thoughts written in it in violet ink that she bought in Hely's of Dame Street for she felt that she too could write poetry if she could only express herself like that poem that appealed to her so deeply that she had copied out of the newspaper she found one evening round the potherbs.
Hantxe gordetzen zituen bere ume-altxorrak, kareizko orraziak, Mariaren alaben intsignia, arrosa-lurrina, bekainetarako leine-lapitza, alabastrozko kutxatila eta lixiba etxera ekartzen zutenean bere zeretan aldatzeko xingolak, eta hantxe zeuzkan jasota bere pentsakizun zoragarri batzuk tinta morez idatziak, Dame Streeteko Hely's-en erositako album hartan, zeren poesia idazteko gai ikusten baitzuen bere burua, hain barruraino iristen zitzaion poema hura bezala, gau batez lorontziak biltzeko erabilitako egunkaritik kopiatu zuena.