Gustave seemed to have not heard Darlene. He was very close to her and looked down at her carefully, trying to see through her.
There was a deep confusion in his eyes. After a moment, he repeated, "Are you really Darlene?"
Recently, Gustave was often puzzled about the similarity between Darlene and Aurora. He wasn't familiar with Darlene, and Darlene didn't look like Aurora.
They were two completely different people, but somehow he felt there was a resemblance between Darlene's and Aurora's expressions. He even thought that Aurora seemed to have the same mole as the one Darlene had beneath the corner of her eye.
Even the mole of Abigail, who called herself Aurora, seemed to be in a different position from Aurora's mole.
And when Darlene roasted food in the backyard, her figure reminded him of the little girl who stood on her tiptoes in the kitchen of the orphanage and secretly helped him cook in the middle of the night more than ten years ago.