I offered to help Mrs.Redmain to look for the ring, but she said it was no use.

Who found it, sir ?" "I will tell you who found it, if you will tell me who put it there." "I don't know what you mean, sir.

It must have been there all the time." "That's the point again! Mrs.Redmain swears it was not, and could not have been, there when she looked for it.

It is not like a small thing, you see.

There is something mysterious about it." He looked hard at Mary.
Now, Mary had very much admired the ring, as any one must who had an eye for stones; and had often looked at it--into the heart of it--almost loving it; and while they were talking now, she kept gazing at it.