She started to talk, But again I couldn't hear her. I pointed at me ear and shook my head, she didn't understand. So I pointed a line from my mouth to my ear, she still didn't understand. Someone stepped out of the brush behind her.
Like many Chinese students in the U.S., Ms. Lu disliked writing essays and got flustered after being scolded by a professor for reasons she didn't understand.
And the thing that she saw was her sister and the son of the housekeeper in what looked like a sort of compromising situation and she didn't understand what was going on.