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.

invited by her, I will certainly seize

attending, I find I am short of fancy dress. I am here simply on

a moment of consideration, I decide to buy one for the

with its well-cut style and its

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

it costs

thing is that I need to spend for nobody but myself,

after all, it’s quite

for me not to

far lower

to the apartment

I am greeted by no one, without any sign of the man who lay on the

when the medical

don’t really care. I actually feel better without having to explain the

get a satisfying hair dress from a salon before

allegedly Hilda and Terence used to

feel how cold-blooded that woman

doesn’t feel anything,

have any sense

of the residence, a sense of unease strikes

Hilda