The food came and they ate and the conversation started the way it had been starting between them since the project calls, from the middle of something, no warming up required, no preamble.He asked about the Hartley approval. She told him what Ro had said, standing at the edge of her desk with the design board, casual, not looking at her. He listened and when she finished he said: Ro is right and the work is right and you knew it was right when you submitted it. She said: I knew. He said: then why did you look surprised when he told you. She said: because knowing something and having it confirmed are different feelings. He looked at her. Said: yes. They are.They talked about the project. The properties. The specific design choice on the third site that she had almost changed twice and had not changed and that had turned out to be the thing the client commented on specifically in the approval letter. She told him about the choice, why she had made it, what she had been thinking when
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