"Anyway, I should like to have just these, and nothing else.

I am glad that we know nobody, and have no friends, and that I shall have so few presents.

You won't give me many jewels, will you ?" she said suddenly, insistently, turning to him.

"I shouldn't know what to do with them.

I used to have a magpie's wish for them; and now--I don't know, but they don't give me pleasure.