Chapter 47 Unknown Heirloom
- Valerius Sin did not summon people.
- He had spent enough of his life being summoned, to parliament, to crisis meetings, to the bedside of dying colleagues and the offices of foreign dignitaries, that in retirement he had made a quiet but absolute rule: he went nowhere he did not choose to go, and he received people only when he felt like receiving them.
- Today, he felt like receiving Evelyn.