It's been almost exactly a year since I last took it into my head to change my journal titles, design, etc. The last line of Saki's "The Open Window" has been running through my head lately, so that was the inspiration and is my new friends page title. To discover what the journal subtitle means, you'll have to read
the story, one of Saki's most famous.
PS: while looking for a link to the story, I ran across this lovely query in the Spanish forums at WordReference.com:
'I'd like to know if "romance at short notice was her speciality" means the same as "love at first sight".'
Sweet.