Charles came up behind me and looked over my shoulder.
"Good gracious!" said Lady Mary, solemnly.

"Ralph, you are a rich man.
Why, mine are nothing to them!" and she touched a diamond and emerald necklace on her own neck.

"I never knew poor Sir John had so much good in him." "Oh, Ralph, Ralph!" cried Aurelia, clasping her little hands with a deep sigh.

"And will they really be my very own ?" Ralph assured her that they would, and that she should act in them the following night if she liked.
I think there was not a woman present who did not envy Aurelia as Ralph took up a flashing diamond crescent and held it against her fair hair.

I saw Evelyn turn away and begin to tear up a small piece of paper in her hand.