not an actual one, that such offers must be read symbolically.”
I thought I might throw up. I looked over at Augustus, who was staring intently at the door, and saw his shoulders slacken.
“I will not do this, Peter,” answered Lidewij. “You must meet them. You must.
You need to see them. You need to see how your work matters.”
“Lidewij, did you knowingly deceive me to arrange this?”
A long silence ensued, and then finally the door opened again. He turned his head metronomically from Augustus to me, still squinting.
“Which of you is Augustus Waters?” he asked. Augustus raised his hand tentatively.
Van Houten nodded and said, “Did you close the deal with that chick yet?”
Whereupon I encountered for the first and only time a truly speechless Augustus Waters.
“I,” he started, “um, I, Hazel, um. Well.”
“This boy appears to have some kind of developmental delay,” Peter Van Houten said to Lidewij.
“Peter,” she scolded. “Well,” Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me.
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