She picked it up and held it out to him on her plump palm.
"Why have you taken this off your watch-chain ?" "It's a little false god," said he.
"It's the first thing yon asked for when you recovered from your illness.

You said you had kept it since you were a tiny boy.

See?
I remember.

You set great value on it then ?" "I believed in it," said Paul.
"And now you don't?
But a woman gave it to you." "Yes," said Paul, wondering, in his masculine way, how the deuce she knew that.

"I was a brat of eleven." "Then keep it.