During the following week she spent

During the following week she spent long hours over learned journals, making slides of the reproduсtions of Borromini's plans for San Carlo. She also found time to visit the china department of the campus store.
70 When Florentyna had completed the paper , she rehearsed it the night before and felt confident about the outcome , a confidence that evaporated the moment she arrived at Professor Ferpozzi 's seminar and he said, "Miss Rosnovski is going to give us a talk on the Church of San Carlo."
For twenty minutes Florentyna delivered her paper, showing slides and answering questions. When she finally sat down, he nodded thoughtfully and declared, '' A fine presentation of the work of a genius'' She relaxed for the first time that day as Ferpozzi rose briskly to his feet. ''Now it is my painful duty to show you the contrast and I want everyone to make notes in preparation for a full discussion next week.'' He flicked the first slide into the projector. A building appeared on the screen behind the professor's desk. Florentyna stared in dismay at a picture of her father's Chicago Baron Hotel towering above a cluster of elegant small-scale apartment buildings. One or two students looked at her to see how she reacted.