"This is one of your wedding-presents to me," she said, signifying the latter.
'I understand from this gentleman--' signifying Atherton--'that your name's Robert Holt.
The flake-formation is interesting: later we shall think of it as signifying pressure--somewhere.
But the faces of the tablets bear numbers or marks; and each set comprises three tablets numbered "1," three numbered "2," three numbered "3," and one marked with the character signifying "guest." After these tablet-sets have been distributed, a box called the "tablet-box" is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game.