After an hour when Thea had composed herself by pouring her heart out to Ruth, she left but not before taking a promise from Ruth that she would join her and Rees over dinner the next day.
By that time it was already late in the afternoon. Ruth gave Mr and Mrs Payne's bag of groceries and returned to her room. She realised that she hadn't eaten anything for lunch when her stomach growled loudly in hunger.
She didn't feel like eating anything as her mind was clouded with the thoughts of Florence and Thea. But her stomach growled again demanding to be feed and after sighing, she dragged herself to the kitchen area.
She prepared some potatoes to eat with some bread and after serving it on a plate, she came to sit on her bed.
While deliberately chewing every morsel of food, her mind drifted again to the two problems at hand.
There was Florence who was running behind a man for his love and then there was Thea, on the other hand, who was afraid of her man's love.
