My missing text was in the body of the message with no italics in my most recent reply to Feline in the boundstories website stories feedback section. This was this morning, but when I checked the text just now it's there as I typed it.
I can only assume that the text made it to the server properly, eventually it looking like I had typed it. At the time, (early this morning) I had exited the site and came back in thinking this would cure whatever was wrong, possibly on my end. It didn't, but a slightly different part of the text was missing on the second look.
Thank you for such a fast response to what appears to be an insignificant problem, Jackie.