They could have no better chaperone than his own mother.

Lady Helena was speaking to him one morning of their proposed journey, when Lord Earle suddenly interrupted her.
"Mother," he said, "where are all your jewels?
I never see you wearing any." "I put them all away," said Lady Earle, "when your father died.

I shall never wear them again.

The Earle jewels are always worn by the wife of the reigning lord, not by the widow of his predecessor.

Those jewels are not mine." "Shall we look them over ?" asked Ronald.