Just one chapter today, but it's a pretty full one.
So much for those of my readers (a few of you wrote me) who decided long ago that Richard was merely a thoughtless drone so inculcated in the trappings of his profession as to be incapable of independent thought. Consider that there's usually more to any person, whether real or fictional, than meets the casual eye. Sometimes for good, sometimes for ill, but you never get the full picture at a glance.
