'I will fetch it,' he said magnanimously.

Her own box was brought from his room.

She then consented to look womanly at the Ormont jewels, over which the battle; whereof she knew nothing, and nothing could be told her, had been fought in her interests, for her sovereign pleasure.
She looked and admired.

They were beautiful jewels the great emerald was wonderful, and there were two rubies to praise.

She excused herself for declining to put the circlet for the pendant round her neck, or a glittering ring on her finger.