they dazzled him like sudden sunlight on a blade of steel ...

they clung to his mind and bewildered it ...

he forgot the question at issue ...

he forgot-- Just then Li Ho opened the kitchen door.
"Get 'um lunch now," said Li Ho, in his toneless drawl.

"Like 'um egg flied?
Like 'um boiled ?" Spence sank back upon his pillow.
"Like um any old way!" he said.