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call it. You're not to go on working there, though. I won't have it. But first I thoughtwe'd better go to one of those shops in Bond Street where they sell rings." "Rings?""It's usual, isn't it?" Midge laughed. In the dimmed lighting of the jeweller'sshop. Midge and Edward bent over trays ofsparkling engagement rings, whilst a discreet salesman watched them benignantly.Edward said, pushing away a velvet-covered tray: "Not emeralds." Henriettain green tweeds--Henrietta in an evening dress like Chinese jade . . . No, notemeralds . . . Midge pushed away the tiny stabbing pain at her heart."Choose for me," she said to Edward. He bent over the tray before them. Hepicked out a ring with a single diamond. Not a very large stone, but a stone of beautifulcolour and fire. "I like this." Midge nodded. She loved this display ofEdward's unerring and fastidious taste.She slipped it on her finger as Edward and the shopman drew aside. Edwardwrote out a check for three hundred and forty-two pounds and came back toMidge smiling. He said, "Let's go and be rude to Madame Alfrege. ..."Chapter XXV"but, darlings, I am so delighted!" Lady Angkatell stretched out a fragile hand toEdward and touched Midge softly with the other. "You did quite right, Edward, tomake her leave that horrid shop and to bring her right down here. She'll stay here,of course, and be married from here--St. George's, you know, three miles by the road,though only a mile through the woods, but then one doesn't go to a weddingthrough woods. AndI suppose it will have to be the Vicar--poor man, he has such dreadful colds in thehead every Autumn--the Curate, now, has one of those high Anglican voices, and