“‘Something new, Edna?’ exclaimed Miss Mayblunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead.

‘Quite new; “brand” new, in fact; a present from my husband. It arrived this morning from New York.’”

—Kate Chopin (1851–1904), from The Awakening, 1899.