And just like that

She stood in front of the bench feeling at once, the immense freedom and the intense quiet of solitude. It had rained and the air smelled of earth. The lake by the route she took was silver blue. She breathed. She reached the office and work hit her like hot desert air. She went to those meetings, smiled, spoke, delivered.'Was a big day for you eh?' he asked as she typed fervently into her computer. She looked at him with a distracted smile, 'What big day?'