"Anna, you have guests at the courtyard entrance; they've been standing there for quite some time!"
Guests? Anna, who was extracting river clams meat, turned around and saw Connor Osborne's lonely figure at the courtyard entrance, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun.
Connor Osborne had come? Slightly startled, Anna put down the river clams and kitchen knife, washed her hands briskly in a bucket of water next to her, and then got up and walked towards the courtyard entrance.
Some say it's hypocritical to remain friends after a divorce; Anna thought she must be that hypocrite because she intended to remain friends with Connor even after they divorced.
Reaching the courtyard entrance and seeing Connor standing outside, his lips chapped, Anna naturally opened the gate and asked, "Would you like to come in for a sit?"
