After all, they are the most suitable jewels for the young--for they are emblems of everything that youth should be--white and pure and innocent." Her breath came and went quickly.
"Do you think youth is always like that ?" she asked.
"Not always,--but surely most often," he answered.

"At any rate, I wish to believe in the simplicity and goodness of all young things." She was silent.

Helmsley studied her thoughtfully,--even critically.

And presently he came to the conclusion that as a child she had been much prettier than she now was as a woman.

Yet her present phase of loveliness was of the loveliest type.