Chapter 72. The Banquet

Rachel Han was no longer enthralled to keep in touch with the Griffin's, even when they're on the house side. She stood in the tall mirror that showed her skirt ends, her waist pushed together by corset, and the ruffles in her shoulder sleeves. Rachel wants to wrap a scarf in her neck, but it was no longer fashionable if she added one more cloth to her outfit plan. 

Her mother insisted that the dinner was a formal gathering between the Han and the Griffins. 

But Rachel acknowledged that it wasn't a simple grown ups talk about life and prosperity. It was to talk about the marriage between us. Do they still see us as lovebirds? A couple? A romance that never ends? 

Why do they have to talk about our union when lots of families' houses are being bombed? 

When she's done arranging her hair with pins, she came out. Her brother, Ronnie, was at the door, ready to ask me if I am ready. He's in a simple brown coat, with a bowler hat similar to Ezekiel, an