All she needed was a minute to herself to calm down. That's it. Ordinarily, her husband was perceptive enough to understand what his wife required. Entertaining, especially inside his home, put him on edge. Any time a member of their small family dared to put a crack in the false façade that they were the perfect family, he would get angry. Knowing that going back out to the room where their guests had assembled to celebrate the milestone in their son's life would be a mistake until she was less annoyed, she didn't turn from the sink.