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Winnie could hear the relief in Lila Merchant’s voice over the phone. “You’ll do it? You’ll help us?”
Winnie hesitated. There was the matter of her fee, always. She charged lawyer prices, to make sure her clients would take her advice just as seriously. All of her years teaching Consumer Psychology had taught Winnie the value of perception.
She began to broach the subject, when Lila Merchant cut her off. “Of course,” Lila said. “The Foundation will pay. We wouldn’t dream of asking you to do it for free. Will you come here today? I’m free all afternoon.”
That suited Winnie just fine. She was as anxious as Lila Merchant.
But the woman who met Winnie in the lobby of the Dance building a few hours later wasn’t at all what Winnie expected.
The inside of the Dance building reminded Winni
