"Do as I tell you! Take it!" Gracie turned to Sir Beverley.

"I can't, can I?
Tell him I can't!" But Piers was not to be thwarted.

With a sudden dive he seized the coin and without ceremony swept Gracie's hair from her shoulders and dropped it down the back of her neck.
"There!" he said, slipping his hands over her arms and holding her while she squealed and writhed.

"It's quite beyond reach.

You can't in decency return it now.