Just then, someone pushed the room door open gently.

A middle-aged woman came out and asked, “Doris, has Edmund left?”

This woman was Doris’s mother, Faith Saunders.

Doris quickly wiped away her tears and turned toward the woman as she nodded. “Yes, Mum. He has left.”

Then, she hurriedly asked, “Mum, how’s Dad?”

Faith sighed. “Still the same—unconscious.”

Noticing that Doris had just cried not too long ago, she swiftly stepped forward and asked in concern, “Doris, why are you crying? What