‘I can’t judge. We knew that necklace too well. . . .’
And she put out her tongue at me, and laughed again.
‘You are a priceless crowd!’ she said. ‘You live in a world of
your own, all long ago, and out of date, and things as they used
to be! . . . Guy’d be the same, if I’d let him, but I won’t,
I warn you, so there! . . . I suppose I must wear this to-morrow,
and I shall look a fright!’
But she did not wear the old necklace. She wore the new big pearls,
and she did look very lovely, and Guy was proud of her.
I asked what she thought of Yearsly, for I could not make out
what she thought.
She said:
‘Oh, simply topping, but it does give one the hump!’