"I always have thought that opals are the prettiest of all the stones.

Write the verse out for me, A.O., that's a good child.

I'll send it home for the family to see how important it is that I should be protected by such a charm." This from a senior, the dignified and exclusive Miss Ridgeway, put the seal of approval on the fashion, and when, a week later, she appeared with a beautiful Hungarian opal surrounded by tiny diamonds, with her zodiac signs engraved on the wide circle of gold, every girl in school wanted a birth-month ring.
Elise wrote home asking if agates were expensive, and if she might have one.

Not that she thought they were pretty, but it was the stone for June, so of course she ought to wear one.

The answer came in the shape of an old heirloom, a Scotch agate that had been handed down in the family, almost since the days of Malcolm the Second.