you," he says bashfully.

Mrs. McCunn's eyes open wide. "You're far too kind," she gasps. "It
must have cost an awful lot of money."

"It didn't cost me that much," is the truthful answer.

She fingers the trinket and then clasps it round her neck, where the
green depths of the stones glow against the black satin of her bodice.
Her eyes are moist as she looks at him. "You've been a kind man to
me," she says, and she kisses him as she has not done since Janet's
death.

She stands up and admires the necklet in the mirror. Romance once
more, thinks Dickson. That which has graced the slim throats of
princesses in far-away Courts now adorns an elderly matron in a
semi-detached villa; the jewels of the wild Nausicaa have fallen to the
housewife Penelope.

Mrs. McCunn preens herself before the glass. "I call it very genteel,"
she says. "Real stylish. It might be worn by a queen."

"I wouldn't say but it has," says Dickson.

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