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 certainly seize

am short of fancy dress. I am here

decide

to me with its well-cut style and its beautiful color that fits

price is so high in America or I

it costs

good thing is that I need to spend for nobody but

it’s quite a sum

for me not to be looked down upon

enough, the price of this is far lower than

to the apartment after the

am greeted by no one,

leave when the medical

without having to explain the situation to

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

in a luxury villa, where allegedly Hilda and Terence

feel how cold-blooded that

killed him with her own hands, she doesn’t feel anything, staying where it used

any sense of

front of the residence, a sense of

soon. Can I convince Hilda of my indifference when I