My Land, My Rules

"It's beautiful," Nell said. "I will treasure this and I can't wait to read it."

She set it aside, along with the carefully preserved and refolded wrapping paper and turned to the rather large package. Her eyes went wide when she opened it. "Oh my. This is... it's beautiful, but it's too expensive!"

She looked over at Steven. "This is - it's amazing, but I don't know if I should - I priced something like this and - oh, thank you, but are you sure this isn't too much?"