"Are the children asleep?" Guilt gnawed at Jing Ting. "They're already asleep." "How were they this afternoon?" Jing Ting asked as he stepped into the living room. "They were fine. Mrs. Zhou played with their model cars with them for a while." Butler Shen followed him in, then added, "It was your wife, actually. She sat in the courtyard for half an hour after she got back. Seemed like she had some