She was willing to sell it now; there was such a superb affair down at Shumway's Music Room.

Had Mr.Bailey seen it?
Ethie's voice was not quite steady, for she was not accustomed to deception of this kind, and the first step was hard.

But Mr.Bailey was not at all suspicious, and concluded the bargain at once; and two hours later Ethie's piano was standing between the south windows of Mrs.
Bailey's apartment, and Ethie, in her own room, was counting a roll of three hundred dollars, and deciding how far it would go.
"There's my pearls," she said, "if worst comes to worst I can sell them and my diamond ring." She did not mean Daisy's ring.

She would not barter that, or take it with her, either.

Daisy never intended it for a runaway wife, and Ethelyn must leave it where Richard would find it when he came back and found her gone.