The bright lights lifted her spirits.

After a time she had become acquainted with the prints that hung in the print-seller's windows in Garrick Street; they always stayed there long enough to grow familiar.

There was also a jeweller's shop in Coventry Street; it sold second-hand silver--old Sheffield-plated candle-sticks, cream ewers and sugar bowls; George III.

silver tea-services, and quaint-shaped wine strainers--they stood there in the window in profusion.

In themselves, for the daintiness of their design, or the value of their antiquity, they did not interest her.