Just part of it!

I’ve spent a chunk of this evening trying to find a scene I remembered writing in relation to my novel. It was never meant to be in the novel itself – it was an exercise in solidifying the pre-novel lives of some of my secondary characters.

All I can find is an outline of the scene and this piece of dialogue:

“Davonte was a rascal. She got me to make my own first present from her.”

“Just part of it!”

What does it say about how long you’ve been working on a novel that you may have confused planning to write a scene with actually writing it?