He had been wanting to hide it at the bottom of the bed so that when she entered it before him she should feel it against her legs.

Since dinnertime he had been meditating this little surprise like a schoolboy, and now, in trouble and anguish of heart at being thus dismissed, he gave her the case without further ceremony.
"What is it ?" she queried.

"Sapphires?
Dear me! Oh yes, it's that set.
How sweet you are! But I say, my darling, d'you believe it's the same one?
In the shopwindow it made a much greater show." That was all the thanks he got, and she let him go away.

He noticed Satin stretched out silent and expectant, and with that he gazed at both women and without further insistence submitted to his fate and went downstairs.

The hall door had not yet closed when Satin caught Nana round the waist and danced and sang.