A few minutes into the_22__, the lady sitting at the table beside mine got up, seemingly__23_, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate her to a table as far away as possible from the man who wouldn’t _24__his phone.
I sank in my seat out of _25__. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to go over and _26__. Before getting up I looked around to see where she was and she was, _27__, at the table furthest away from me.
I noticed that the lady was_28__ and staring out of the window. I _29__ a tinge(气息) of sadness——perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. But I had_30__ destroyed it minutes earlier.
Right then I _31__ my plans for a conventional apologetic gesture. Seeing the Smile Cards in my wallet I took one out. On signing my restaurant bill I asked my server to _32__charge the lady’s meal to my credit card and hand her the Smile Card instead of her bill.
Did she take it the wrong way, I _33__? Did she get confused? Did she refuse the anonymous_34__? And so on. I just waited and felt nervous to learn the _35__.To my pleasant surprise, things_36__ to be the best possible way.
The waiter approached me in a stream of _37__, telling me, “In many times she had _38__there before, but we had never seen the old lady smile as she did upon __39_the Smile Card and the $0check. She thanked me even though I _40__ that someone else did the job.”
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