In My Desperate Time

Invitation?

Of what? Who would send this to a newcomer here in America?

I just can't figure it out.

Puzzled, I receive it from the little girl, express my thanks, and open it.

Before long, I realize the identity of the inviter.

It’s Hilda Farey.

The banquet tonight I am invited to is to celebrate her first wedding anniversary with Frances Louis.

I know it’s for showing off.

That’s what she has been doing since she got Frances.

I definitely don’t want to see her.

But a thought of Frances changes my mind.

I have been holding back my will to see him, only to avoid suspicion from Hilda.

I am invited by her, I will

as I am attending, I find I am short of fancy dress. I am here simply on a business trip,

consideration, I decide to buy one

appeals to me with its well-cut style and its beautiful color

whether it’s because the price is so high in America or

costs

spend for nobody but myself, so it’s actually

all, it’s quite a sum of

me not

this is far lower than that of her

to the apartment after the

I am greeted by no one, without any

when the

I actually feel better without having to

a perfect makeup, get a satisfying hair dress from a salon before I

is in a luxury villa, where allegedly Hilda and Terence used to

this, I truly feel how cold-blooded that

own hands, she doesn’t feel anything, staying where it

any sense of

of the residence, a

I convince Hilda of my indifference when I actually