The order in which the images she was drawing and painting on a fragile sheet of mulberry paper did not at this point proceed either from left to right or from right to left. Nor did the images branch out from the middle. She had not decided on a central image. The changes in her life were only slowly becoming evident, and she wanted to add them as they occurred -- not in some order over which she had control.

The invitation to the Huygens President's dinner for the football team was an example of an unexpected event over which she had no control.

Also worrying Caydance this morning was a strong sense that the central image in this new work should be from the miniature illuminated manuscript found concealed in the music box. But, she did not as yet know which image to choose.

This Book of Hours, Sido had so far ascertained, was probably created in a late 15th or early 16th Century French Court. If (this was not verified) it had been found or acquired in some way by a American soldier in World War II Italy, rather than lost in the Italian mountains by a crusader on his way to the Holy Land, perhaps it had been lost in these mountains on a pilgrimage route from France to Rome.