Donnie and Helen came to meet after having lunch at the White House!
By the afternoon, Donnie had a separate meeting with Andrew Mellon, and the two discussed the upcoming cooperation between their two families.
It was past five in the afternoon when Donnie and Helen finally got into the car, heading to William Howard Taft's estate on the outskirts of Washington!
In fact, Donnie wasn't as nervous as Harding and the others had teased him about for this meeting with William Taft.
Indeed, if William Taft had disagreed with his relationship with Helen, she would surely have been taken away by the Taft Family beforehand. Even if she couldn't be taken away, there would have been some action.
The absence of action was actually a statement in itself.
So when Donnie arrived at the Taft Family estate, he wasn't subjected to any of the targeting or humiliation you might find in melodramatic novels. William Taft didn't talk business, focusing only on the work Helen was doing with WRPA.