The van stopped in front of the villa, and a few workers carefully carried the wooden crate into the living room to unpack. Under Bruce's direction, they placed the snow-white marble statue onto the pedestal.
Lily took out a check to settle the bill with the workers.
Martin called Leonardo, who had just returned from a vacation in New York, "Come and have a look at your statue."
Leonardo and Nicholson both came over; the former said, "I haven't paid for it yet, it's not mine now."
But Nicholson said, "You'd better pay up nicely, or you won't be able to leave Martin's home."
Martin looked at Nicholson, "What do you think my home is? A den of evil?"
Leonardo ignored the two clowns and quickly stepped up to the snow-white marble statue, carefully inspecting the roughly 50-centimeter-tall figure.
The statue's lines were smooth, the craftsmanship superb, and it was lifelike.
In his many years of buying art, it was not much inferior to those modern artists.
