In My Desperate Time

"Frances, how is your sweetheart?"

She asks me with her big bright eyes wide.

I've just come back from a business trip, so I'm too exhausted to tangle with this little hobgoblin.

I glance at her and say disapprovingly, "What sweetheart? I don't know what you're talking about. Your parents are coming back next month, so why don't you think about how to deal with them?"

Anny's small face immediately clouds over.

She curls her lips and says to me, "Frances, can't you just stop asking such a hurtful question? You know that when my parents come back, it will be an endless torture for me."

After a long sigh, she suddenly turns to me in confusion.

"Frances, Jane is injured. Why are you still so calm?"

Jane is injured?

What's going on?

"What's wrong with Jane? Tell me!" I snap at her, rising from my seat with my heart in my mouth.

any rest. However, I get such

Anny becomes

young man and a middle-aged woman. I

man and a middle-aged

they her ex-husband and

now, I'm too worried to think it through.

is she?

idea that something so big has happened. I have promised

mind is in a

down on the sofa again. She says to me resignedly, "How do I

That's right.

....

that I'm

so anxious that I forget I can do it by a

phone and call her,

and ask them to find out where she is now. By the way, I ask them to bring Susan

are tied up and

faces