Chapter 22

Stephen continued to stare at Merlyn that after a stage, she began to feel uncomfortable. To break the tension between them she asked, "what happened?" Unlike earlier when he wouldn't respond, for the first time, he was opening up to her. "The meeting for which I had been planning for more than a week and making preparations for more than a month is today off my hands. This is a very significant congress of my career, a venue which could open the doors for my business to the European market apart from American and Chinese. And today because of this stupid weather, I am sitting here in a cheap motel which doesn't have even the basic facilities instead of addressing hundreds of delegates in a conference hall." He looked at her cheerful face and asked the only question which had been taunting his mind since the time he first met her. "How would you stay smiling and happy even in depressing circumstances like this?" Merlyn continued to hold her smile and spoke to him. "It could always h