Such things may happen to anybody.

The only awkwardness about the business is that the things were recognized in such a public place, and that the former possessor of the ornaments is so extremely nervous.

Don't be afraid! Give me your hand! Why do you tremble so?
I'll guarantee that there shall be no unpleasant consequences for you.

In case, however, you did not receive this jewelry from your dear grandfather, I ought, I think, to write to the good old man and put his mind at ease by letting him know that I gave it you, as goodness only knows what Rumour may whisper in his ear." Could any man have asked his wife for a confession more tenderly?
"Shall I write to him ?" "Yes, write," said Henrietta, and with that she fell upon her husband's bosom and began to sob bitterly--and a husband's breast is no bad place for a wife's flowing tears.
Henrietta was forced to confess to herself that her husband, at least so far as she was concerned, was a man of noble and tender sentiments.

From henceforth she began to regard him through a glass of quite another colour; she began to believe that the faults she had noticed in him were only the usual bad habits of his sex, and began to discover all sorts of hidden good qualities in him.