Both of them have too much tongue-music to come to any understanding.

By the way--to echo, your own phrase--you had better put away this gem or I shall be strangling you myself in order to gain possession of it.

The mere sight of that gorgeous color tempts me beyond my strength." Random laughed and locked the jewel in his drawer.

Hope suggested that with such a flimsy lock it was unsafe, but the baronet shook his head.
"It is safer here than in a woman's jewel case," he asserted.

"No one looks to my drawer, and certainly no one would expect to find a crown jewel of this description in my quarters.