They rode up to the thirty-fifth floor, rising past the bank offices on the lower floors to the executive offices of Cossack Holdings.

Earlier in the day Zachary had brought in armfuls of flowering dogwood, which Sara herself had arranged about the lower floor of the house.

The lower floor is dug into the hillside, a ploy that persuaded the planners to give consent for a two-storey home that echoes local agricultural buildings.

There would have been room for lots of well-behaved animals on the lower floor.