"How could you be so foolish?" she said. "If it weren't for you back then, my sister would never have become your girlfriend, and then she wouldn't have run away from the wedding. She could have pursued Brother Marcel openly and rightly. Now look, my sister's elopement has made your family resent her; they don't like her anymore. What are she and Brother Marcel supposed to do now? Is there any hope left? And if there's no hope, what will my sister do? You big idiot!"
Glades Horne was stunned.
He had not expected that Julia Bluen, upon coming to her senses, would scold him like this.
"I... um, I indeed made a foolish mistake once."
"However..." "I am relieved now," Julia Bluen said, her voice, as small as an ant's, reaching Glades Horne's ears.
