Jeslyn just stared back, refusing to speak.

If you wont talk, lll have to send you back immediately, Jessie warned sternly.

After Jessie had said her piece, Jeslyn looked up at her with those large, watery eyes that seemed to plead for sympathy.

Jessie, however, was not moved to pity.

She reached out and tugged at Jeslyns ear, declaring, Im calling your father this instant.

But hes on a business trip, Jeslyn protested weakly.

Hes away on business, then. So he sent you to me instead? Look here, Im not the one to be your constant guardian.

to look after me. So she was only lying about that.

Jeslyn, observing as

thought, for Jeslyn to

the brink of phoning Albert. Yet, the mention of

for it but to contact Elsie

bicycle, phone in hand, feigned confusion. Im sorry? Miss Green, could you repeat that? Its terribly noisy here, and your words are getting lost in

spent a good while trying

fierce, muffling Jessies words. She added, offhandedly, that she was visiting her hometown

the call, Elsie pressed on, pedaling her electric bicycle towards her

to

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