"If not, what is she doing touching the personal items in my pocket!" Doctor Zhang interrogated her aggressively, "If you didn't teach her, how would she know?"
"I really didn't teach her that." Xie Wanying clarified earnestly, "The child may have just been curious. At this stage, children exhibit this characteristic, Doctor Zhang, as a doctor, you know that."
"I don't know. I only know that she could only have learned it from you." Doctor Zhang spat out each word through clenched teeth, as though squeezing them through the gaps.
His teeth were clenched, perhaps because he bore a grudge from a past conflict with her. Xie Wanying thought it best not to exacerbate the situation. It wouldn't do to affect his mood when he was to administer anesthesia to her patient.
