Marguerite Pounce, our head of structures, has calculated the load capacity of every box the firm has built, and failed to tell us about 11 of them. We sat down with her in the strong room, a cabinet with the door ajar.
‘Structure is a feeling,’ she said. ‘A dwelling holds as long as nobody examines it too closely.’ Asked about the infamous Blodgett Collapse, she folded her paws and stared into the middle distance for exactly forty seconds. ‘It was a good collapse,’ she concluded. ‘Some of the cleanest creases of the decade.’ Our conversation ended when she noticed a bag.
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