Mary used the excuse of settling Kent’s bill to end the call with Talia.

She did not want to keep listening to Talia’s barbed remarks.

In Mary’s view, Talia was just envious of Sheila.

Mary had already figured out what the Levitt family was like and believed she could handle relations with them, unlike Sheila, who disdained interacting with the Levitts.

Mary understood Geraint and Talia well and did not mind. If she married Kent, they would stay in the city to run their clinic and only retur