"Just this bit of a turquoise that you say cost only a trifle, I'm suah he wouldn't mind that.

I'll tell him it's just my friendship stone." "What a particular little maid of honor you are!" he exclaimed.

"How many girls of seventeen do you know who would take the trouble to go to their fathers with a trifle like that, and make a careful explanation about it?
Besides, you can't tell him that it is _only_ a friendship stone.

I want it to mean more than that to you, Lloyd.

I want it to stand for a great deal more between us.