"Can you tear off the back?
That would be the quickest way.

But no, I know a quicker," and lifting the clock again she turned it upside down and shook it.
They heard--what did they hear?
No one could say, but when she again reversed it, there fell out upon the table and rolled to the floor a small gold circlet.

Lifting it, Mr.Gryce held it out to her.

Taking it, she carried it over to the District Attorney and placed it in his hand.
"Read the inscription inside." He did so, and looking quickly up, said: "This is a wedding ring! Yours! You believe yourself to have been married to him." "I _was_ married to him in Switzerland.

The marriage was legal; he knows it, he acknowledges it, or why should he keep this ring.