At the bottom of the page he wrote the word MIRANDA and drew a circle 
around it. It was not connected to anything else in the diagram yet. He hoped 
that before long it would be. Carl Hollywood worked on his papers late into the 
night, and Mrs. Kwan continued to replenish his teapot and to bring him little 
sweets and decorated the edge of his table with candles as night fell and the 
teahouse darkened, for she remembered that he liked to work by candlelight. The 
Chinese people outside, separated from him by half an inch of crosslinked 
diamond, watched with their noses making white ellipses against the pane, their 
faces glowing in the candlelight like ripe peaches hanging in dark lush 
foliage.