Bette looked at him with warmth.  He had been in a reflective mood ever since he’d dropped in that morning.  When he arrived, surprising the couple, she and Tina had explained that there was a lot of activity going on in their house, so apologized that they wouldn’t able to tour him around, as furniture continued to be delivered throughout the day.  He’d brushed their apologies aside, and had offered his help with anything they would need some help in, including running out to get lunch.

As the lunch hour approached, Tina had been called to a lunch meeting with potential distributors for the film that she’d recently produced.  So it was just Logan and Bette left in the duplex. 

Over lunch, munching goodies from the bento boxes, Logan and Bette had talked about what had happened in 2008, as they mused about fall-out from the financial crisis.  Logan had turned out to be right and became incredibly wealthy by taking the contrarian positions he explained to Bette, and investing in the instruments that echoed those positions.  His friends and peers were wrong and did poorly, however.  In a way, their criticism of him had now turned to a touch of bitterness.

Bette understood why he invested the way he did, and congratulated him on his prescience.  But Bette was surprised that he had shared with her the strains in his marriage that had surfaced at that time.  She was glad that she and Logan had developed a good friendship, and that they had gotten to the point of being able to talk like this.  She was guessing that he and Melanie may be struggling with something right now, which might explain his reflective mood.

Now, following lunch from bento boxes he and Bette had selected from the Japanese restaurant, they were testing out the furniture that had been delivered.

She let him relax in the sofa, as she quietly continued unwrapping the cushions she’d designed for the sofa.  Although the designer had been reluctant to add anything to the sofa, he’d been intrigued by the brunette’s other ideas about furniture she’d asked him about.  Bette and the designer ended up working together to design the rest of the furniture for her office, and for the terrace she’d added to the roof area of the mansion.  He’d been excited to learn from contacts in the furniture business that Bette had also been working with other specialists on other aspects of the duplex she and Tina had been rehabbing. And some of those specialists where people he had admired from a distance.