Chapter One
The brunette is telling Ben that what he's done with the space is truly
remarkable. She's a lawyer with the firm, and he can't possibly imagine her
knowing anything at all about matters architectural, so he guesses she's
flirting with him, although in an arcane legal sort of way.
The name of the law firm is Dowd, Dawson, Liepman and Loeb. It is on the
thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh floors of the old Addison Building on Eighteenth
Street and Ninth Avenue. The brunette is telling him that his multilevel concept
echoes the very precepts of the law, exalted justice on high, abject supplicants
below. Through the huge cathedral windows Ben designed for the eastern end of
the space, he can see storm clouds gathering.
The brunette is drinking white wine. Ben is drinking a Perrier and lime. This is
DDL&L's first party in their new offices. They have invited all their
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