Alice Turner heard the impatience in Benjamin Shaw's voice, but she continued to sit motionless on the stone bench, indifferent to his honking.
Seeing Alice ignoring him, Benjamin didn't honk again. He released the brake, stepped on the gas, and quickly drove back onto the road.
As Benjamin's car drove away, Alice withdrew her gaze and took out her phone from her bag. She glanced at the time, noting there was still some time before the hour she had set for herself.
She suddenly felt hesitant, unsure whether to keep sitting here and waiting or to call a cab and leave.
Alice held her phone, thinking it over for a long time, and finally decided to keep waiting. She couldn't just leave after asking someone to meet her; it wouldn't be right.
To pass the time, Alice browsed the internet on her phone, when she suddenly remembered what Sophia Wood had told her that afternoon.
She closed the webpage she had just opened and dialed the number of the house phone.
"Hello! Who is this?"
