"It's your ring you miss?"
"Yes."
She rose and went to a little stand, from a drawer taking a golden circlet, and resuming her seat once more.
"Why do you not wear it?"
"It's a little large."
"Indeed. Permit me to take it. I will bring you another that you can wear."
She resigned the ring to his keeping.
"And this one. How beautiful!" he exclaimed, turning the diamond ring about on her finger.
"Strange you never noticed it's beauty before."
"Well, you know I've been too deeply absorbed in the owner."