Chapter 7Having called Bing’s name, Melina held her breath. Would he come or would he ignore her?
It seemed almost an eternity before he replied,
“Hello, Melina! Where are you?”
“I am here, behind this hedge of roses,” she answered.
“Stay where you are,” he replied, “and I’ll come round.”
She despised herself for eavesdropping, but she could not help drawing nearer the dividing hedge to hear Lileth Schuster say in a low but urgent whisper,
“You can’t, Bing. I want to talk to you! I have to talk to you! There’s so much we have to discuss.”
“Some other time.”
Bing’s voice seemed to Melina to be indifferent as if his thoughts were concentrated somewhere else.
“No, no, now, tonight,” Lileth insisted. “I haven’t seen you for so long. There’s so much we have to tell each other. Besides,
