Despite quietly loathing his wife's penchant for fake jewellery, Mr and Mrs Lantin are happily married. When she dies, finances force him to sell her gems and he discovers that one of them is not only real but worth a significant sum of money. What keeps niggling Mr Lantin is that he didn't buy it for her – so who did?'The Fake Gems' is a cautionary short story from the pen of a master. The perfect addition to any collection of Maupassant's works.-