[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me.

All the same, we should excuse ourselves," Vergil said. "Although I am wondering if the meeting was already well concluded when we intruded." He gave Nathaniel a deep look on the last sentence that made Charlotte's caution prickle. She saw the big brother in him, thinking that a private chat with this man was in order.

Bianca still had not picked up the cue. "You are making plans regarding the petitions?"

"I trust that a petition came up at some point in the visit," Vergil said dryly. "Correct, Knightridge?"

Charlotte wanted to die. "Indeed one did," she said. "Mr. Knightridge is proving to be a great help in the cause."

Bianca beamed. "I always knew that the two of you would find common ground in something."

"Yes, we have discovered that we think alike in one small area," Nathaniel agreed.

Charlotte wanted to hit him.

"Indeed," Vergil muttered.

We won't know until later how serious it is although it doesn't look too clever.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

We installed it in the same footprint as the original, although our target is 6 by 10 foot and the original target might have been only 6 by 6 foot.

The stained-glass windows are original, although we had to have this little transom restored.