She is going to the city.

What she came for was to ask me to lend her my ruby ring.

She never understands why I can't lend it to her.
I told her she might have the string of pearls and the pearl brooch and the ring with the little diamonds and anything else except the ruby.
You see, I might die before she got back, and I couldn't die without the ruby ring on my finger.

I promised somebody--I can't remember whom--" "I know, dear, don't try to remember." "Mary says it is shameful waste to leave it lying shut up in the box in my drawer.

But it has to lie there.