Renata called on a Thursday morning at nine."It is ready," she said. "You can come in or I can bring it to the office.""Bring it," I said. "We will all be there.""All of you?""Jo has her Thursday appointment with Marcus and the lobby fountain. Harry is in operations. I will call him up.""Eleven o'clock," she said."Renata.""Yes.""Thank you. For doing this as carefully as you did everything else."A pause."This one was easy," she said. "The easiest thing I have done in two years."I called Harry at nine fifteen."Come to twenty-six at eleven," I said."The adoption papers.""Yes.""Is Jo...'"With Marcus. She has already reorganized the fountain area and is apparently now supervising the lobby.""Of course she is," he said. "I will be there at eleven."He was there at ten fifty-two.He came in without knocking.He had stopped knocking months ago, the specific familiarity of a man who no longer needed permission to enter a room that was partly his. He sat in the chair across fro
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