Another Louis XVI.
inkstand--oh, bother! ...

Who are they from?
...

Oh, from the Countess Rudolph and the Baron de Valery." Her voice rose high, thrilling with pride.
Then she turned her face to her friends, with the receiver still at her ear, and cried: "Oh, girls, a pearl necklace too! A large one! The pearls are big ones!" "How jolly!" said Marie.
"Who sent it ?" said Germaine, turning to the telephone again.

"Oh, a friend of papa's," she added in a tone of disappointment.

"Never mind, after all it's a pearl necklace.