When the fellow pulled it out from the sofa, I saw it wasn't what I'd had, so I thanked our lucky stars, and would have tried to let you know that all hope wasn't over, if I'd dared to catch your eye or make a signal." Maxine was suddenly calm.

The tears had dried on her cheeks, and her eyes were fever-bright.
"Ivor, you can't know what you are talking about," she said, in a changed voice.

"That red leather case is what you took out of your breast pocket and handed to me when I first came into the room.

At the sound of the knock, I pushed it down as far as I could between the seat and back of the sofa, and then ran off to a distance before the door opened.

You _did_ bring the necklace, knowingly or not; and as it was the cause of all my trouble in the beginning, I needn't tell you of the joy I had in seeing it, apart from the heavenly relief of being spared discovery of the thing I feared.