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She wanted to hear the whispers in the next room, but the pleading to her ears were also unheard. She stretched up onto her toes as if height would give her hearing a greater advantage.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing. Go away!" she frantacilly whispered, ushering her little brother out of the room with her eyes.

She suddenly heard footsteps approaching, and she pressed her small frame against the wall as to not to be seen. The red drapes of the gown following like an obedient shadow.

"If that is what she wants, that is how it will be."

The girl could not help but sigh at the relief of finally hearing what she had longed to here, but then what was being said gave her a pang in the pit of her stomach.

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Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway.

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