S he planned to open her Fall 1986 class on The Lineage and Creative Practice of Artists Books with this French manuscript. The book was open to an illustration of the Duke's Paris residence She was contemplating the artists' use of brilliant blue pigment, when a substantial man with a mild limp walked purposefully to her table. He was good looking if you liked solidly built men with slightly used handsome faces and medium short cut hair.

Without asking permission, he pulled up a chair on the other water view side of her table. "I can be very quiet", he said.