When the immense accumulation of dust had been cleared off the lid, and the chest conveniently placed for her, Somerset was attended to, his modest box being brought up by one man unassisted, and without much expenditure of breath.
His interest in Paula was of so emotional a cast that his attention to his own errand was of the most perfunctory kind.

She was close to a gas-standard, and the lawyers, whose seats had intervened, having finished their business and gone away, all her actions were visible to him.

While he was opening his father's box the manager assisted Paula to unseal and unlock hers, and he now saw her lift from it a morocco case, which she placed on the table before her, and unfastened.

Out of it she took a dazzling object that fell like a cascade over her fingers.

It was a necklace of diamonds and pearls, apparently of large size and many strands, though he was not near enough to see distinctly.