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1* Guy Francon gets 2 towards the end that prove, despite all their quarrels and inability or refusal to understand each other, he truly loves his daughter. First, when he hears Dominique is leaving her second husband, he calls her and tells her to come stay with him until the divorce is finalized (and her lover's trial is over). When she gets there, he has a plate of sandwiches and glass of milk waiting for her and doesn't hammer her with questions but just comforts her, assures her he knows the man she's chosen this time will make her happy, that he'll be acquitted, and that he's welcome to visit any time. Later, he sits with Dominique and Roark's other friends at his trial, "to the shocked disapproval of his friends."
2* Dominique showing up to help Gail keep ''The Banner'' running -- later topped by the moment when he wakes up in his office to find her there before he even arrives, and she embraces him and assures him that everything will be all right.
3* Howard's and Dominique's good-bye after the Stoddard Trial.
4* Howard's and Steven Mallory's first meeting, where the former pulls the latter out of the proverbial [[Literature/ThePilgrimsProgress Slough of Despond]].

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