![]() He receives his associate's daughter and the young man not in the formality of his office where he does business but in his adjoining reception room, not too large for one-to-one contact, amply comfortable, with TV console and a fan of financial journals on its glass tables. Motsamai's suite is reached through his secretary's office and his personal assistant's office. They emerge through security turnstiles where they slot the plastic cards given them when the guard at the entrance verified the registration number are guided by another uniformed man to sign (her name serves for both), time of arrival and other particulars of identification in a gold-tooled leather-bound book are taken over by a young woman programmed to preface with And how are you today her instruction of which elevator goes up to the 17 th floor. She smiles but he knows that she is trying to measure with other eyes the impression he needs to make. She looks for a moment at this avatar, presenting himself aggressively handsome in the silk scarf at his neck of the shirt that becomes him best. The good secondhand Toyota the garage mechanic obtained for her finds a place in the cavern. ![]() ![]() She is asked by the personal secretary, who makes the appointment, to give the registration number of her car so that she may be granted parking in the corporate headquarters' underground bays.
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