"Ask whether Lyda Pavoya ever—no, I won't say it!"
"Whether she ever wore the pearls? That's what you were going to say!"
"So you did know?"
"I didn't. And I don't now. I only know what you have in your mind. I don't believe she was allowed to wear the pearls."
"Why should you believe it? And even if she did, it was before you knew Peter—the Duke. Or anyhow, it was before you were engaged. It was when she was dancing for the Polish Relief Fund in Paris, that I saw——"
"You saw what?"
"Saw—her."
"Emmy! You didn't see her wearing the Tsarina pearls? It's not possible."
"Why, of course you must be right, dear. Even though they are blue, they'd be like any other pearls, wouldn't they, to see at a distance."
"That's just what you said about Pat's pearls five minutes ago: that you'd seen them only 'at a distance.'"