It fairly crackled between them as he rose hurriedly to his feet.
"You have come, Eunice! You have come----" But he saw well enough what she had come for.

She laid the case on the table, but as she tugged impatiently at her glove, the fringe of her wrap caught the clasp of it and scattered the jewels on the cloth.

She tried then to put the ring beside them, but her hand shook so that it fell and rolled upon the floor behind them.

Peter picked it up quietly, but he did not offer it to her hand again.
"I have come," said Eunice, "to say what in my mother's house I was afraid of being interrupted in saying; what you must see, what my mother won't see." "I see you are greatly excited about something!" "I'm not, I'm not....

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