At the museum, she took him to the rooms with paintings from the twentieth century. Jake spent a while camped in front of a Jackson Pollock.“I didn�...�t figure you for a Pollock fan,” Alice said to him quietly, standing next to him after she had gone around the room herself.“Five people moved past it while I was standing here. Four of the five thought it was a fraud perpetrated to separate money from gullible art collectors and museum curators.”“What did the other one think?”“It was ‘ballsy,’ to. Suspicion and doubts, perhaps. She ignores all the feeble people on her way, and carries on, her every step full of total and undeniable narcissistic confidence and vanity.Agatha is startled when she opens her office door. Darien is sitting at her desk, seriousness stamped all over his face."Darien? What is the meaning of this? What are you doing in my office?" she asks, her undertone giving away her displeasure by his presence at her office, sitting on her chair.Darien raises his hand, and. “Okay, you kids did real good. That’s it for the day,” he announced.“We’re not done yet. We have to get it into the water,” I argued.“Not today, you’re not.” I opened my mouth, but he said, “Don’t argue, Grim. You’ve done a good job here, but that will be as much work as this was. We won’t finish. We can do that tomorrow after church if the weather holds. If it rains, we delay another week or two. We’ll need to use the lift trailer, and that means I have to do it, not you kids.”I was. I have to admit that I was reallysorry that it had all come to an end.Once out the shop I was extremely conscious of my nails. I know thatnails don't have nerves but it did feel like I could feel the layer ofpolish on them, they feld a little tight, it was a really strangefeeling. I also became aware that the pink that Sarah had used wasvery, very, pink and very very shiny. Until that moment I hadn'trealised just how on display our nails are. Eventually I walked aroundwith my fingers curled in.