He frowned in puzzlement. “Your family…you had so much. Yet you lived above your shop…” She came closer, holding out the paper. He tipped the diamonds into it, a dazzling waterfall of costly gems. “We weren’t—I’m not—aristocratic. No one expected us to live lavishly. If people had known what we had, it would have been stolen.” She folded the packet and returned it to the box, closing the flap.
