When the stock market closed that day, I left alone immediately. Burn and Pierre, who stared big and small in the room, were left behind. I know they have a belly of doubts. In fact, when I came back to the room after a fire broke out, the two of them kept their eyes away from me.

From beginning to end, the only thing that didn't speak was Amanda. During the whole process of my argument with Burn and Pierre, and throughout the afternoon afterwards, she did her work quietly without saying a word. Of course I'm not so foolish as to think that she doesn't understand what we're talking...