X : Where have you been?

Y : From the canteen, why? Did the manager ask me to do something?

X : Yes, …. to Africa.
True answer:
He had sent these ceramics

In the conversation y asks using direct sentences in the form of simple past tense, then x reports with indirect sentences in the form of past perfect tense.

Direct sentence Indirect sentence
simple past tense past perfect tense
S + V2 S + had + V2
  Mary : Hello.