My work is on the table--some of it.' It blazed in the morning light--all red and blue and green flashes, picked out with the vicious blue-white spurt of a diamond here and there.

Kim opened his eyes.
'Oh, they are quite well, those stones.

It will not hurt them to take the sun.

Besides, they are cheap.

But with sick stones it is very different.' He piled Kim's plate anew.