She was working in the same building, but he was not aware of it.

He was busy, and her existence was of no matter to him.

But all the time she was in her Spiral room she had a sense that he was upstairs, a physical sense of his person in the same building.

Every second she expected him to come through the door, and when he came it was a shock to her.

But he was often short and offhand with her.