For a moment she was so dazzled by it that it was hard to see it distinctly. Then she saw that it was a magnificent necklace of diamonds fashioned in the semblance of flowers.
It was very light but exquisitely beautiful and in the centre of each flower was a huge blue-white diamond.
She felt the Marquis was waiting for her to speak and after a moment she managed to say,
“It – is exquisite! Thank you – so very much!”
“I have something else for you,” he said, “something that I hope you will always wear, even though we somehow omitted the formality of becoming engaged.”
He took her left hand as he spoke and slipped onto her third finger a large diamond encircled with smaller ones.
The ring was so large that it made her hand seem very fragile and, as she stared at it, bewildered at posse
