Outside, Daniel checked the time in the margin of his notebook.

He asked if I needed to sit.

I said five minutes, then a meeting about the house.

He closed the notebook and said five minutes it was.

At the strip-mall office the copier had jammed twice.

A faint black stripe ran along the bottom of every page.

Robert moved the paperweight so I could read the second page.

The agreement covered property access, legal expenses, and separate accounts.