Sentence:  <!--Part of her wanted to go and put her arms round her aunt and be gentle to her. The other part was fighting a grim battle to defer to her vision of something that she wanted not to see. It fought--> [She fought with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her <WSD>signature</WSD> of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.