If possible, Mary Douglas would rather not attend something like a graduation ceremony.
If not for experiencing so much regret, she might really not have shown up.
There are no walls in the world that don't leak secrets.
Her hospitalization and losing her child were things even the elderly gardener behind the school probably knew about.
Appearing at the graduation ceremony, she undoubtedly became the focus of the entire school.
She hated those kinds of looks, but what could she do?
No one dared to come up and ask her what had happened, or come close and mock her.
Yet, being pregnant out of wedlock before even graduating college was already considered quite the gossip back then.
Wherever Mary Douglas went, the first reaction of others was subconsciously to avoid her, and the unpleasant remarks weren't subtle.
