Chapter 5Brian went the entire week without seeing Cathy. It was more a matter of circumstance than choice, but it helped postpone the inevitable meeting when he would end their relationship. On Sunday night, she had traveled to New York for meetings. On Thursday afternoon, Brian was in the conference room of his offices, meeting with two staffers of Victor Barber, the senior member of the House Budget Committee. The meeting was acknowledgment of his arrival on the scene and to solicit Brian's support for Barber's policies and programs. Senior politicians were always working on one more vote, even when they were on vacation in France, as Barber was now.
Brian excused himself and left the meeting to check on the status of a couple of other projects and because he had consumed too much coff
