"I hope you will allow me to love you also; and I beg you to grant me the favor of accepting this small remembrance." While speaking, she unfastened from her wrist a splendid bracelet with the inscription, Semper.
Serge frowned and looked stern.

Micheline, lowering her eyes, and awed by the Englishwoman's grandeur, timidly said: "I accept it, Madame, as a token of friendship." "I think I recognize this bracelet, Madame," observed Serge.
"Yes; you gave it to me," replied Lady Harton, quietly.

"Semper--I beg your pardon, Madame, we Poles all speak Latin--Semper means 'Always!' It is a great word.

On your wife's arm this bracelet will be well placed.
Au revoir, dear Prince.

I wish you every happiness." And bowing to Micheline with a regal bow, Lady Harton took the arm of a tall young man whom she had beckoned, and walked away.
Micheline, amazed, looked at the bracelet sparkling on her white wrist.
Without uttering a word Serge unfastened it, took it off his wife's arm, and advancing on the terrace, with a rapid movement flung it in the water.