Parker demonstrated his compass.

Brielle showed Denise a drawing of Ashford Tower with a garden on the roof, a design so imaginative that Denise promised to ask the building engineer what might actually be possible.

Caroline brought a photograph of Eleanor from her younger years.

She wore trousers with wide legs and stood beside a group of construction workers, one hand raised to shield her eyes from the sun.

She looked determined and quite small beneath the unfinished steel of the tower.