9/15 "But, if you please, I must go. I beg your pardon, but my Aunt Betty is waiting with the carriage." "Why, damn Aunt Betty!" I exclaimed. "You shall not go! See, look here!" I pulled from my pocket the little ring which I had had with me that night when I drove out to Elmhurst in my carriage, the one with the single gem which I had obtained hurriedly that afternoon, having never before that day had the right to do so. In another pocket I found the plain gold one which should have gone with the gem ring that same evening. My hand trembled as I held these out to her. |