Betsy had referred it as an afterthought, suspecting the young girl was a runaway.
These books were added, as an afterthought, to the original scheme; they were composed in the years 1136-1141.
As an afterthought, he gave me his cell phone number.
He was her world, but she'd been nothing more than an afterthought, strung along with promises for years.
So if you just took those words and put them together it would mean an afterthought or a change of mind.