"A very natural mistake," she said. "Some time ago my jeweler advised
me not to wear the real pearls on the stage, so I had this made by
Roberts. The resemblance was so perfect that I could scarcely tell the
difference myself. It was only by wearing them that I could be sure."
"By wearing them?" I repeated.
"The warmth of my body caused the real pearls to gleam with a deeper
lustre."
"Lucky pearls!" I thought.
"They almost seemed alive," she went on with a kind of passionate
regret. "The artificial pearls show no change, of course. And they
have to be renewed in a short time."