บท 185: Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Five

"Audrey, do you really think Joey is in love with me?" Penny asked suddenly, distressed by her own thoughts. "I mean, might it not be... Well, force of circumstances? After all, I was practically the first girl he met when he came back from abroad"

"That would be so if I didn't know my brother so well. But you are everything he ever dreamed about. Penny, he told me so himself. I think that if he had met some girl first, he would still have waited till you came along"

Penny bit her lip.

"Audrey, do you think i should just go away?" she asked on an impulse. "While I am here things will remain as they are. If I weren't here, he might forget about me and look around for someone else"