Sorry, miss...

Marie played with the straw in her half-drunk coffee.

The ice had already melted and now the coffee was bland and the taste really weak.

But she didn't want to do much more than observe everything she saw around her.

Hong Bo had finished the work she had asked him to do.

Apparently she did it in about 15 minutes, which was a little humiliating when you think that it took her an afternoon to get all that done when she was hired.

But anyway, just ignore that fact.

Think gently about how Hong Bo was reading any self-help book now and at some point she was almost halfway through.

She never hesitated in her reading and dusk was already approaching, but that didn't seem to be a big deal to Hong Bo.

She just marked the page with a metal bookmark that she had among her things.