The study's bookcase was constructed around three walls.

A tatami-style floor in the center of the space allowed people to sit and lie down.

Wills Waltson preferred spending time reading in the study at the time.

She was standing in the doorway and staring at him bewildered as he turned around.

He took her hand away. "What's the problem? Why do you still seem confused?"

"Wills Waltson, I am beginning to fear that my mother has come here to steal something," she said as she turned to face him.

"Hmm?" Wills Waltson asked, "What nonsense is this? " with a look that suggested he wasn't sure whether to laugh or...