"Do you think this journey is possibly what your mother meant?"

But what if she only thought so, and her mother had meant something else?

I am sure that my mother meant her no harm.

Only then did I realize that perhaps my mother had meant it to be this way.

And that's what his mother means as well, I suppose.

And yet she could see what her mother meant; the same lost in the dark.

That was when he understood what his mother had meant.

Maybe that's what his mother meant him to be from the very first.

You don't believe it, but I am, and mother means to go with me.

Virginia did not know exactly what her mother had meant.