What is the matter?
"Hello? ", uncle Travis called out.
No response.
"Are you out there Matilda?"
He paused and waited for a reply. He had looked in the left and right direction.
"Are you looking for someone?
" Not really"
"Oh, the rate at which you were perambulating got me thinking you were" Now she would realize he had been lying. She is Sheila's friend and one-time colleague. A wrong impression is all he had been striving to avoid.
'I -I -actually thought I could see someone here but, it turns out..' He raised his hands in the air.
'Oh,' she sighed as she disappeared into a bending corner.
'Thank the Lord she is gone. So close' he chuckled beneath his breath.
He cast his mind back to the scene and he could envisage her crying. His heart sank.