Edna has been
out in that country; she's naturally high strung and responsive to
that sort of thing, as I told you, and she fairly soaked in all that
nonsense. To make it worse, when I sent them to her I wrote that--
that--" a dull red surged up under the tan skin--"that as long as
the fire in the stones burned blue for her my heart would be all
hers. Now the necklace is gone. You can imagine the effect on a
woman of that temperament. And you can see the result." He pointed
with a face of misery to the solitaire on his watch-chain. "She
insisted on giving this back. Says that a woman as careless as she
proved herself can't be trusted with jewelry. And she's
hysterically sure that misfortune will follow us for ever if we're
married without recovering the fool necklace. So she's begged a
postponement."
"Details," said Average Jones crisply.
"She's here at this hotel. Has a small suite on the third floor.
Came down from her home in central New York to meet my mother, whom
she had never seen. Mother's here, too, on the same floor.
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