Hillary Clinton delivered her concession speech in the presidential race late Wednesday morning at the New Yorker hotel, blocks from the venue planned for her victory party the night before—where, not long after 2 a.m., Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta had taken the podium to send supporters home, telling them there will still votes to count. Between then and Trump’s overnight acceptance speech, however, Clinton called her Republican opponent to concede privately. Of the president-elect, she said, “We owe him an open mind, and a chance to lead.”

Here is an excerpt of her remarks: