Wynand, though a man who panders to the masses in his professional life, privately worships only man's noblest achievements. Holding the same basic premises as Dominique, it is logical that he loves her. He becomes fanatically jealous of sharing Dominique with others. Wynand wishes to build a home in the country as an isolated fortress, so he will not have to see Dominique among the people of the city. Every time Wynand has seen a building he's admired, the architect has always been Howard Roark. So Wynand hires Roark to build his home. Wynand greatly admires both Roark's integrity and his genius, and he uses his great influence to bring to Roark a number of commissions. Roark's prominent buildings in New York City slowly begin to attract a growing number of individuals who understand the revolutionary nature of his designs. Roark receives more commissions and becomes better known.
One of the more prominent commissions he receives prior to his relationship with Wynand is for the Monadnock Valley Resort. The owners of the resort conceive it as a swindle. They sell two hundred percent of it. They are certain it will fail. They want it to fail. They choose Roark as the worst architect they can find. They believe that Roark's plan for separate houses where people can enjoy privacy, rather than be clustered together in one huge ant colony of a hotel, is an antisocial scheme bound to fail. They hire him because of it. But Roark's idea satisfies a need for a resort that was not currently met — and his design is spectacularly beautiful. People come, and the resort is successful. The owners are arrested for fraud, but Roark is not involved in the legal case. The simple fact, however, that Roark made money for people who did not want to make money impresses businessmen, and Roark receives commissions. Additionally, at the time of Monadnock's completion, Roark receives a telegram from Kent Lansing, now the legal owner of the Aquitania Hotel. Although Roark's original intent was to spend the first summer of Monadnock's existence at the resort, he now returns to New York City to complete the hotel.
