Mon, 8 December

OVERHEARD AT TABLE 4, RYDGES LATIMER, 12:47 PM "—no, the whole point is the chair stays empty until they've agreed to the second clause, it's theatre, mate, pure theatre—" "—she left her card face-down, which in Shanghai means something completely different—" "—the plains look like nothing from up here but I swear they're the reason everyone eventually signs—" "—his coffee's still there. Cold. Nobody's moved it. Nobody will. That's how you know he's coming back."