“Will you please remember that I like you because you are not in the habit of making speeches.”

“I beg pardon. I won’t offend again. Well, then, I will confess that I don’t know why you wear jewels. There must be a Puritan strain in my character, for I cannot enter into the desire for jewels. I say this merely because you have practically invited me to be brutal.”

Now that I recall that conversation I realize how gentle she was towards my crude and callous notions concerning personal adornment.

“Yet you went to England in order to fetch my jewels.”

“No, I went to England in order to be of use to a lady. But tell me — why do you wear jewels off the stage?”