Sanborn is a former client of Henry Cameron’s, and asks Cameron for recommendations when he wants to build a country house. Cameron points him to Roark. While Sanborn likes Roark’s work, the situation is complicated by Sanborn’s wife, who wants the house to look like a French chateau. Roark refuses to design a chateau for her, and Sanborn is stuck between Roark and his wife. Ultimately, after the house is built, it is abandoned because Mrs. Sanborn refuses to live in it.