But that word and that look were, at the present moment, out of his power.

"Good-bye, Nina," he said.

"It is best that I should leave you now." "By far the best; and you will take the necklace with you, if you please." "No; I will leave that.

I cannot keep a trinket that was your mother's." "Take it, then, to the jeweller's, and get back your money.

It shall not be left here.