What Frances was thinking was obvious enough for him.

Given that he had nothing to talk with Clara, he decided to leave and head back home.

As he pulled away the car, Marshall could see from the rearview mirror that Frances was talking to her phone, stamping his feet and showing an exasperated expression on her face towards him.

Marshall took a sigh of relieve, and relaxed the muscles on his face.

Going back to his house, he saw that his grandma was sitting on the sofa and talking with Lydia.

A little surprised to see Lydia here, Marshall greeted her in a respectful tone.

Lydia laughed, "You're back, Marshall! It's quite late now, what has gotten in your way?"

Marshall answered, "Nothing, I have just spent some time meeting my mom."

Hearing that, Old Mrs. Grant sighed, "Is she doing fine recently?"

Marshall answered with a second of pause, "Maybe. She seems doing fine, actually."

Despite the awkward look on her face when she mentioned Clara, she seemed to be getting used to her new life now.

Marshall turned into the kitchen and asked the servant to cook him a bowl of noodles for dinner.

As those cooking utensils clattered in the kitchen, Marshall sat down and joined the talk with the two ladies.

Old Mrs. Grant asked Marshall whether he was going on a business trip for the next few days. Then, she mentioned that she saw Khalid had already packed his things in preparation for the trip, which made her wonder why, since it was the first time she had ever seen Khalid being so pro-active in preparing for a single business trip.

"It is," she said, "as if he couldn't wait to go."

both Marshall and Lydia laughed, but only Marshall knew Old Mrs. Grant was not exaggerating.

Indeed, Khalid was yearning to set off for the business trip as soon as he could, since he was just desperately in need of some space to run away from everything and clean up his mind.

as Marshall had found, Frances had recently been phoning

candid about her willingness to be reconciled

he knew that his father was currently not in the

to repulse the return of his wife nor bold enough to accept it

in such a dilemma, he was struggling in a mess, and thus longed for some

lips lifted, Marshall said, "We are going to meet a big customer this time. I guess he just don't

he somehow began to admire his

remembered Peter had told him that it was important to take the initiative in a relationship, which

son Lucas. She said she had no idea who the ideal girl in Lucas's mouth

circle of Lucas was not wider than Marshall, and he seldom went anywhere else to kill his time other

any idea where his son got acquainted with the girl, nor did she know when they fell

 whether she had introduced any girl to Lucas,

expresses disappointment after he comes back. If what you said was true, mom, he would have told me the name of the girl already. I suspect that the girl is from

over what Lydia had said, Old Mrs. Grant thought her words did make sense. Heaving a sigh, she said, "You child has grown up, and is able to take care of themselves already. Children can just make their own choices, and we'd better stop sticking our hands in their business anymore. Otherwise, they might turn against you with

that Old Mrs. Grant was making pointed

because the whole family pushed him so hard that Marshall was irritated and decided to marry Katherine. And now,

to blame anyone for his failed marriage, there

 offered a symbolic nod,

him much about her mother, but did get him thinking

unexpected visit had really driven Katherine crazy, and meanwhile, he was also wondering whether his words had gotten deep into

of Katherine, and to express his faithful willingness to be with her again. Even before Katherine came

be warning

didn't know whether he had done

conclusion, Lydia then turned to Marshall, "What do you think about that, Marshall? You guys always hang out with each other, and meet

impression, they didn't actually hang out with each other much in their daily life, and talked about nearly no other topics but

have several times talked about a woman, and

discomfort him

admit that Katherine was indeed the sort of girl whom Lucas

urged him to utter, "Nope, never heard of that. He's a man of few words, and won't talk with anyone

always been a reticent boy. Maybe I should try to ask him more about that, otherwise he would possibly keep that as a

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