Now it read: — still not clear. Then he whispered, “What if the spaces are wrong? What if it’s one word?”
Result: — no.
Then she realized: she had to treat the phrase as one string, but the letters she wrote — — if she shifted each of those back one again, she’d get nonsense. She was stuck. p svcl fvb
She read the new phrase aloud: — still nonsense. Now it read: — still not clear
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z p svcl fvb