'Gosh! Do rich people spend money to suffer like that?'

Eevonne shut her lips as tightly as she could.

"Is it very bitter?" Ruth asked, smiling.

Eevonne nodded. "I'm sorry, Missus Ford and Miss Mann. I…It's not that I haven't had coffee before. It's just that the coffee that I had before was those with milk and plenty of sugar added. This is my first time having such pure and bitter coffee without anything added at all…"

Ruth smiled again. "Pay attention to the back of your tongue now then.