The mouth could be opened, and within was a small cavity where a photo or any tiny object could be concealed.

Where her mother had picked it up she could not tell.

But Lady Heyburn was always purchasing quaint odds and ends, and, like most giddy women of her class, was extraordinarily fond of fantastic jewellery and ornaments such as other women did not possess.
Several members of the house-party at Connachan entered and chatted, all being full of the success of the previous night's entertainment.

Lady Murie's husband had, it appeared, left that morning for Edinburgh to attend a political committee.
A little later Walter succeeded in getting Gabrielle alone again in a small, well-furnished room leading off the library--a room in which she had passed many happy hours with him before he had gone abroad.

He had been in London reading for the Bar, but had spent a good deal of his time up in Perthshire, or at least all he possibly could.