"Were you the ones singing at that time?" Mrs. Connor asked in inaudible voice.

The twins fell silent. With frozen smiles, they blinked to guess it.

"What did she just say?" Louis glanced at his younger sister.

Emily shrugged her shoulders vaguely, afraid to offend the woman. "I don't know."

Smiling, Ava got up from her chair. "You won't be able to hear my mother from there. Come here." She reached out her hand.

The twins' faces lit up again. Happily, they let Ava sit them on her lap. ...