Sonia saw this, and so did the Duke.

He looked at Sonia's white throat.

She met his eyes and blushed.

She knew that the same thought was in both their minds; the pearls would have looked infinitely better there.
Germaine finished admiring herself; she was incapable even of suspecting that so expensive a pendant could not suit her perfectly.
The Duke said idly: "Goodness! Are all those invitations to the wedding ?" "That's only down to the letter V," said Germaine proudly.
"And there are twenty-five letters in the alphabet! You must be inviting the whole world.

You'll have to have the Madeleine enlarged.
It won't hold them all.