She did her customary tour of the building to ensure that everything was in its place and that the cleaners had done their job properly. More than once she’d had to let cleaners go because they couldn’t seem to work to her standards. Yet when she found a good team, it seemed inevitable that she would lose them for some other reason. Pregnancy, visa problems, a partner who just wanted them to stay home. It was hard to find the right staff, and harder still to get them to stay. Carrie had actually ended up scrubbing toilets herself on occasion. She wasn’t too grand for that.The Mathieu Randon collection had been on display for almost a week, during which time Ehrenpreis had seen an unprecedented number of interested parties come through the door. Most of them weren’t going to be buying, of course, but no one could ever be turned away, just in case. No matter if they turned up in sneakers rather than Turnbull and Asser. Even the bloke who gave Jessica “the creeps” when she saw him standing in front of one painting with his hands in his pockets had to be treated with politeness and care.“Most of the world’s richest people are creeps,”
