"What's going on here?!"
East 49th Street, Turtle Bay. Katharine Hepburn glared furiously at Henry and Lorna Dane, who had returned in a bedraggled state.
"Wait, let me explain. It was an accident." Henry hurriedly explained how he had taken the girl out to practice driving, only to run into a battle between superheroes on the road—Spider-Man versus Sandman.
However, that front-row seat had brought them not excitement and thrills, but an actual car crash and a massive hit to their wallets. The superheroes' terrible habit of causing trouble without cleaning up afterward was plain to see.
Lorna Dane did not dare say much. She merely nodded frantically beside him like a pecking chick. It could not be helped; the old lady's presence was too intimidating. During Lorna's childhood, Lorin, her aunt with no blood relation to her, had never dared scold people with such an attitude.
"Really?"
After Henry finished, Katharine Hepburn looked at Lorna and asked for confirmation.
The girl nodded vigorously. "Really, everything Henry said is true. Kate, you didn't see the scene—it was really serious. Since neither of us was hurt, and Henry was on good terms with the NYPD officers, we were only able to make a simple statement and come back first."
"When we left, quite a few people were still at the scene, waiting for help from the police or paramedics. With such a huge incident, I think you'll see it on the evening news. I saw TV station interview vans arriving at the scene."
Katharine Hepburn's expression softened slightly, and she turned her concern to the child before her. "You weren't hurt, were you, Lorna?"
"I'm fine. Luckily, Henry protected me, so I wasn't injured. Otherwise, that Cadillac would have crushed us flat. I heard people say that after seeing the car