In the morning, she utilized her indoor washroom, dressed in one of her more cheerful gowns, had a bit of breakfast, and then headed back over to the school to find that the book was still sitting on her desk. It crossed her mind that Caroline might come into town to pick it up, and it would've made perfect sense for her to simply leave it there since the school was always unlocked. However, by noontime, when the book still hadn't moved, Hope decided the neighborly thing to do would be to drop by the Pembroke house and leave the book. It didn't matter much that five miles' distance didn't quite make one a neighbor.