For the first 10 minutes he simply flipped through the pages touching lightly on a subject, assessing the feedback from the audience, moving lightly to another subject, touching lightly on it and assessing the feedback from it and so forth, until he had a fix on the concerns and the hopes of that audience.
Fidèle à ses habitudes, il avait devant lui une imposante liasse de papiers. Pendant les dix premières minutes, il a simplement tourné les pages, effleurant l'un après l'autre les divers sujets et jaugeant l'intérêt de l'auditoire.