Returning home, with one dollar and 87 cents left in her pocket, she had just enough time before Jim arrived home from work to wrap the precious gift in a piece of colored paper and to curl the remaining short ends of her hair. When Jim saw it, he was speechless. "Oh, Jim, don't look at me like that!" Della cried "It...grow again. Sure it will. Very quickly. Believe me. And I had to do it. Here!" she produced the parcel of the watch-chain from behind her back. "You see, I had to sell it to get money for your present. Happy Christmas, dear!