You had some meaning, some object." "Oh, you noticed it, did you ?" he said, with a sneer.

"I would scarcely have given you credit for so much intelligence.

Well, I had a meaning.

I wanted to call the old man's attention to the fact that you, his daughter-in-law, had only a few trumpery trinkets to wear." "Do you mean that you wanted him to buy me some, to give me a present ?" she inquired, with a puzzled frown.
"No, not buy you some," he replied slowly, his eyes evading hers.
"There's no need to buy any.

I'm thinking of the family diamonds; there's any amount of them already; a tiara, necklaces, bracelets--and, I remember, a string of pearls as good as any in the country.