They'll expect me to contribute something to the mock Christmas tree fund, and I want to get Jack something nice.

I couldn't take his own money to buy him a present even if there were enough, which there isn't.

I've already made him everything I know how to make, that he can use, and men don't care for things they can't use, but that are just pretty, as girls do.

Just look what a beauty bright of a watch-fob I've found in this catalogue." She turned the pages eagerly.

"It is a bloodstone.