He was quiet in the evenings, and when he came home from work, he seemed exhausted. Anne noticed that her parents no longer quarreled. But one night, when Anne crept downstairs, she saw that her mother and father were both in the kitchen, drinking tea and not speaking a word to each other. They were two ghosts in the same room; they were people who no longer had anything to say to each other. That was when Anne realized that there were times when silence was worse than an argument.
