"Finally, some peace and quiet." After returning from the police station where she had given a statement, Grace Winslow collapsed onto her bed, feeling as if her whole body was about to fall apart.
She felt a wonderful sense of clarity, both in mind and body.
All the frustration she had bottled up in this life and the last had been released in one fell swoop.
After lying down for a while, she got up to fetch hot water, preparing to take a hot bath.
That was the one downside to the factory's communal dorms.
The bathrooms were all communal, and there was only one public bathroom per floor, with a few stalls inside. People did their laundry and bathed there, and when it was crowded, you had to wait a long time.
Grace Winslow still had some money. She didn't plan to stay at the factory forever. After she took the college entrance exam and got into a university, she planned to buy a house.
