There was a sound at this moment in the adjoining room, on hearing which Patty abruptly departed; and the bride stood listening to her lord's footsteps, and still looking at herself in the glass. He entered her room, and she did not turn or raise her eyes, but a soft smile spread over her face as if a sun had risen and covered her with sudden light and warmth. She tried to see if the waist of her gown was wrinkled, or the set of it awry, but it was no use. When he came close to her and stooped to kiss her white neck, she lost all recollection of details. "You want," he said, about ten minutes afterwards, when he had himself turned her round and round, and fingered the thick brocade and the lace critically, "you want diamonds with such a stately dress." "Oh, no," she said; "I won't have any diamonds." "You _won't_, did you say? This language to _me_, Elizabeth!" "The diamonds shall go in beer and tobacco, Kingscote." "My dear, they can't." "Why not?" "Because the Yelverton diamonds are heirlooms." "Oh, dear me! Are there Yelverton diamonds too?" "There are, I grieve to say. They have been laid up under lock and key for about forty years, and they must be very old-fashioned. But they are considered rather fine, and they are yours for the present, and as you can't make any use of them they may as well fulfil their purpose of being ornamental. You must wear them by-and-by, you know, when you go to Court." "To Court?" reproachfully. "Is that the kind of life we are going to lead?" "Just occasionally. We are going to combine things, and our duties to ourselves and to society. It is not going to be all Buckingham Palace, nor yet all Whitechapel, but a judicious blending of the two." "And Yelverton?" "And Yelverton of course. Yelverton is to be always there--our place of rest--our base of operations--our workshop--our fortress--our home with a capital H." "Oh," she said, "we seem to have the shares of so many poor people besides our own. It overwhelms me to think of it." "Don't think of it," he said, as she laid her head on his shoulder, and he smoothed her fine brown hair with his big palm. "Don't be afraid that we are destined to be too happy. We shall be handicapped yet."