She reserved her rings with the distinct purpose of having the experience again.

Then she made a substantial lunch at a rather expensive restaurant.

"It isn't time yet," she thought, "for crusts and dripping," and tipped the waiter a shilling, telling him to get her a cab.

As she turned into the Strand she told the cabman to drive slowly, and made him stop at the first newspaper office she saw.

As she alighted a sense of her extravagance dawned upon her, and she paid the man off.