Everyone in the Briggs family, including Pauline Briggs, saw that newspaper article. Pauline had never imagined that the adopted daughter she had lovingly raised all these years would have such a disgraceful background.
"Pauline, hurry up and send that woman away!" Grandma Briggs sternly said to her daughter.
"Mom, is the news true? Could there be any mistake?" Pauline still could not accept that her adopted daughter had such a background.
Grandma Briggs' sharp eyes swept across her daughter's face. It's all my fault, she sighed inwardly. You are my late-life daughter. Your two brothers are successful, so I don't need to worry about them. I thought it would be fine to just spoil you a bit. Your father and I shielded you from such sordid matters when you were young, and I didn't expect you to grow up so naive of worldly affairs.
"Mom, I've been so foolish!" Pauline admitted.
"You are not foolish! Your nature is just too pure and kind," Grandma Briggs sighed.
