She remained alone for upwards of half an hour, in the course of which time she read all the reviews once and some of the more enthusiastic twice.
Then carefully folding the papers, she put them aside and sat thinking.
She thought for a long time without moving, her eyes shining as they looked ahead, out of the stupid and sordid turmoil of yesterday into the golden promise of tomorrow.
She thought by no means clearly, with a brain confused by praise and sodden with fatigue; but above the welter of her thoughts, a single tremendous fact stood out, solid and unshakable, like a mountain towering about cloud-wrack:
She was a Success.