But it isn't every woman can do it, no matter how much you spend on her.

There was a girl in some history book who wanted gold shields, or something, and the fellows threw 'em at her, and she was crushed under 'em: they killed her.

Well, that's true enough: some women looked buried under their jewelry.

What I want is a woman who'll hold her head higher the more diamonds I put on it.

And when I looked at you the other night at the Brys', in that plain white dress, looking as if you had a crown on, I said to myself: 'By gad, if she had one she'd wear it as if it grew on her.'" Still Lily did not speak, and he continued, warming with his theme: "Tell you what it is, though, that kind of woman costs more than all the rest of 'em put together.