These people were so imposing that the assistant could not stop them by herself. She apologized, "I'm sorry, Miss Ruth, but I couldn't stop them from barging in to see you."

She recognized the two young girls at the head of the group as the daughter of collateral relatives in Hall's Family.

Lisa Hall raised her forehead loftily, "Arabella, let your people out, we want to talk!"

Arabella sat back in her desk chair, crossed her arms across her chest and said coldly, "I don't remember us knowing each other."

Since Arabella did not know them, why should she follow their orders?

As the collateral relatives of Hall's Family, they...