The moment Walter Rhodes finished speaking, everyone in the room—including the few members of the First Uncle's family and other relatives who had just walked in—all turned to look.
Mrs. Rhodes immediately sensed his ill intentions and took the initiative to introduce them. "These are my sister's children. They knew we were performing our ancestral worship rites today and happened to be visiting, so they came along to see what was going on."
Logically, since Mrs. Rhodes, an elder, had offered an explanation, Walter Rhodes, a member of the younger generation, should have known when to stop.
