The Cosmo-Slotnick Building opens in December. After the ceremonies Toohey takes Keating to dinner in a pricy restaurant. Toohey: You would have looked better with a wife at your side. Keating: "Katie doesn't photograph well." (Yikes.) Toohey: Oh yeah, I forgot you were engaged. I was thinking of Dominique. Keating: I don't love Dominique. Toohey: Personal love is evil; it's discrimination. All are equal; everyone should be loved equally.
At the annual Arts Ball the architects come costumed as their best buildings. Gordon Prescott dresses as a grain elevator. Heh.
Dominique visits Roark at his office. He is making a model of the Aquitania. Watching his hands shape the clay makes her legs go weak.
Roark contacts Steven Mallory (the artist who took a shot at Toohey) to sculpt a statue for the Stoddard Temple. Mallory: Why do you want me? My name is mud. Roark: You're a genius. Mallory: OK. Roark: It will be a naked woman. I'd like Dominique Francon to be the model. Mallory: Wowee!!!
Construction on the temple, atop a rock overlooking the Hudson, is underway. On the grounds is a shack in which Mallory works on his statue. One day Dominique is having trouble finding the right way to stand. She and Mallory are about to call it a day when Roark arrives. Inspired, Dominique throws off her robe and strikes a heroic pose: How 'bout these apples, Steve? Mallory: Woo-hoo! Perfect!!!
In May construction is halted on the Aquitania Hotel when the owners go bankrupt. In her newspaper column, Dominique dubs it the Unfinished Symphony.
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