Vera smiled faintly and said in a moderate tone, “You don’t need to tell me this as long as you can convince yourself.”

Claudia could not hide her panic and said, “I won’t continue talking nonsense with you anymore. I’ll go down and wait for Charlie to arrive so I can bring him up when he is here.”

Vera asked her, “Has your brother arrived?”

Claudia said without hesitation, “Not yet, but I will go down and wait for him for a while so as not to waste time by going down only after he has arrive