How heavenly that you will always go with me." Her voice shook a little and she leaned over to smooth a possible wrinkle in her girdle.
"Will you come down to the library?
We are rather early." He went directly to the safe and took out the ruby and clasped the chain about her neck.

The chain was long and the great jewel took a deeper and more mysterious color from the somber background of her bodice.
Helene gasped.

"Am I to wear it to-night?
That would be too wonderful.
This is the last great night in town." "Why not?
I shall be there to mount guard.

You shall always wear it when I am able to go out with you." She lifted her radiant face, although it remained subtly immobile with a new and almost formal self-possession.

"I am even more delighted than I was yesterday, for at the fete there will be so much novelty to distract attention.