It's pretty, isn't it ?" he added, taking it out of his pocket.
"Charming," assented St Aubyn.

"That bit of lapis lazuli at the top, with a curious design upon it, is by way of being an amulet, I suppose ?" "H'm! I don't believe in amulets, you know," said Austin, nodding sagely.

"I consider that all nonsense." "Yet there's no doubt that some amulets have influence," remarked St Aubyn.

"If a piece of amber, for example, has been highly magnetised by a 'sensitive,' as very psychic persons are called, it is quite possible that, worn next the skin, a certain amount of magnetic fluid may be transmitted to the wearer, producing a distinct effect upon his vitality.

There's nothing occult about that.