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to school in five hours already. I said it would be too much for you with that cat, ”
Mother says.
Chapter 12
The Letter
Tom visits John's wife Beatrice
How about turning it all upside down?" Tom says, looking her in the eyes as he
scratches his neck and shoots his lower jaw lightly in a thoughtful, subtle
grimace.
"Upside down? Isn't that what we always try to do? "
Olina looks suspiciously at him, then at the New-Nordic sandwich, which is
appetizingly arranged in the glass stand in front of them.
The dining lounge at FRANK A., serves as a canteen for the PET, the shipping
company HP Shores and the international audit-firm UREL & PARTNERS.
"Tell, tell!"
She quickly glances around the restaurant, making sure they’re safe, an old habit
she has. Today, besides Tom and Olina, four chefs, a couple of younger people, a
man and a woman, are sporadically seated around the dining room, with papers
on all tables. The couple eagerly discusses what is on the papers, gesticulates and
takes notes - probably some new interns. The beautifully decorated restaurant is
divided into closed dining lounges along the windows with custom-made reddish
brown, high-backed leather sofas and expensive hand-carved dining tables in
lightwood. On the ceiling there are ten copies of the renowned PH lamp “Koglen”
in copper, and on the floor is a thick, black carpet.
Tom continues the conversation as they slowly move along the bucolic black
counter where the chefs work behind in the large, open kitchen.
