You must promise not to wander off for long walks with any of your admirers.

Not that I fear the admirers, but the thieves that are bound to get into that crowd one way or another.

They have a way of unclasping necklaces even of the most circumspect wives in the company of not too absorbing men." Her eyes opened and flashed, but he had no time to analyze that fleeting expression before she was promising volubly not to wander from the illuminated spaces.
* * * * * He interrupted her suddenly.

They were in the library now, and sat down on a little sofa in front of the window.

The moon was high and brilliant and the great expanse of water with the high clusters of lights on the islands, the sharp hard silhouette of the encircling mountains, the green and silver stars so high above, the moving golden dots of an incoming liner from Japan, the long rows of arc lights along the shore, made a landscape of the night that Mrs.Thornton with all her millions hardly could rival.
"Are you not grateful for this ?" he asked whimsically and a little wistfully.
"Oh, Price, dear, I am more grateful than you will ever know.