“May I go to your room? It's too crowded here for me to speak frankly.” Judy rose from the couch and dusted off imaginary dust from her buttocks. She did not feel comfortable sitting on a rich man's couch.
Judy had never realized how much she hated the rich until she began complaining bitterly upon her arrival. Lucky Sheldon. His house is like a palace.
She could not understand why Sheldon detested being home. If she were that rich, she would never leave the house.
Tobias did not like strangers in his bedroom, so he took Judy to the study as it would not do for words to spread about him being alone in a room with her. Furthermore, she had come as his brother's guest.
Claudia dragged Sheldon to the atrium. Although she was wearing a red dress embroidered with peonies, the expression she wore was not as merry-looking as her outfit.
“Where did you find this girl? I can forgive your usual delinquencies, Sheldon, but how could you bring a woman like that with no manners or etiquette home for Christmas? She wouldn't even greet the elders! Why does she even know your brother?”
“She isn't my girlfriend, Mom! We're just good friends. As for how she knows Tobias, you know Truman, don't you? She's his daughter.”
Claudia had a deep impression of the name Truman. He had been Tobias' driver, who died in an accident.
She had never asked further questions about the specifics of the accident because she knew her son would not explain it to her satisfaction.
“What happened to Truman?”
Confronted by Claudia's questioning, Sheldon answered helplessly, “I'm not sure, either. How would I know about Tobias' affairs? I'm merely good friends with Truman's daughter. She's a poor girl. She has no one, so I brought her home for Christmas. It's just a matter of preparing more food, isn't it?”
Claudia had always expressed disdain for Sheldon's relationships, fearing the manifestation of a particular hereditary trait. The free-spiritedness of her son and his irresponsibility toward women was more like his father than she would have liked.
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