When a client demanded a last-minute meeting during that time, I delegated it.

The first time I said I had a family commitment, my senior partner looked startled.

The company continued functioning without my presence for two hours.

One Saturday I took the twins and Hannah to a science museum.

It was an ordinary public outing, not a private event.

Elias spent twenty minutes watching a model railway and asked a volunteer endless questions about switches.

Rose preferred a room where she could build towers from foam blocks and knock them down.