You're most welcome to any empty space. In fact, simply reserve yourself a parcel of the first tract straight off. That will give me less work to do when it comes to filling up the rest.

[The pamphlet she has made her note on is folded roughly in half and then stuffed unceremoniously into her pocket. The rest, seems to be the implication, he may hold on to for reference if he wishes. There is an air of momentum to all of it, and to the clip of her speaking. There. Decided. She doesn't intend to stay for long. She now has essayists to hunt down, after all.]

I don't have time to form a club and no one would join one anyway. That said, I think it would be to the general benefit to have some less official outlet for certain ideas and ambitions and so on. Maybe it will encourage everyone to volunteer some of their more guarded opinions. But also I'm well sick of being berated and patronized by this company every time I have something to say, and refuse to continue to make it easy to do so. At least this way if someone takes offense, they will have to put their damned back into making it known.

—If you'll forgive the sharp language.