"Two years now. I actually worked on your commercial. We were gutted when it fell through. Do you know Damien?" She didn’t. "The director. Gutted, absolutely." But then Bigend had appeared, in his very blue suit, shoulder-draped in the bivouac-tent yardage of the trench coat, and accompanied by Pamela Mainwaring and a nondescript but unshaven man in a thin cotton sportscoat and wrinkled slacks, a black nylon bag slung over his shoulder. "This is Milgrim," Bigend had said, then "Hollis Henry" to the man, who’d said "Hello," but scarcely anything since.