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Claire wanted to tell the restaurant yes before lunch . The tables were promised for their first week of service , and the tops were already in her workshop , stacked on the north wall where she saw them every time she looked up from the bench . The tracking page was open beside her tea . The tops had come in yesterday . In her head the job was finished except for a morning of fitting legs and wiping dust . Noor , who made the legs , called while Claire was still writing the message . " The tops are yours , " Noor said . " The legs are not on a truck . The carrier will not take them until the pallet is full , and your set does not fill one . " Claire had not been watching the legs . They were the plain part . The restaurant had chosen the tops for the grain , the part a guest would put a hand on , and she had treated everything else as a detail that would follow the wood . It did not follow . A top with no leg was a board . She could line them up , photograph them , even let the owner come and touch them , and still have nothing anyone could sit at . She walked the length of the wall while Noor waited . The grain was as good as the sample . That only made the gap ruder . She asked whether the legs could travel on their own , without the rest of the pallet . Noor went quiet in the way she did when the answer was simple and unwelcome . " They can . If I send them as they are , they leave on the smaller run . If I wait until the pallet is full , they leave when it is full , and I will not pretend to know the day . " Claire looked at the sentence on her screen , the one that said the tables would be there . The tops being here had felt like the tables being ready . They were half a table , and she had nearly promised the whole thing because it was the half she could see . " Put them on the small run , " she said . " I am going to tell the restaurant we are waiting on the legs . " She deleted the message before she could soften it .
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