Part of the reason may have been to signal her arrival at a new professional plateau.
The sound of a slamming door signaled a character's arrival.
It signals the arrival of a raw but quite real talent.
It signaled the arrival of our main courses, one hour and 40 minutes after we had been seated.
Strawberries and tennis, she said, both signaled the arrival of summer.
Once to signal his arrival at Rigg, and then again to let them know that the job's complete.
For another thing, he said, it would signal the arrival of more powerful computers in retail stores.
Those debates signaled the arrival of television as a dominant force in presidential politics.
A knock on the door signalled the arrival of tea.
"I still don't understand why you didn't signal your arrival from orbit," Clavain said.
