If one were to dissect those words, they would seem quite meaningful.

Belle calmly said, “That’s a saying I often heard when I was a child.”

This was evasion! Dodging the crucial point!

Alfred snorted softly, lifted his water cup, and sipped it twice, “Go back and tell your boss to come to my office for a meeting on Wednesday at three in the afternoon.”

Belle was slightly taken aback, and then her exquisitely delicate face broke ...