The man has worried you.

Why not have come to me ?' 'Oblige me, my lord, by restoring me my box.' 'This is your box.' Her bosom lifted with the words Oh, no! unspoken.

He took the key and opened the box.

A dazzling tray of stones was revealed; underneath it the constellations in cases, very heavens for the worldly Eve; and he doubted that Eve could have gone completely out of her.

But she had, as observation instructed him, set her woman's mind on something else, and must have it before letting her eyes fall on objects impossible for any of her sex to see without coveting them.
He bowed.