"Yes!"
"We're happy aren't we, honey," Laura said.
"Sure," Kane said.
Why not?
Kane noticed the amazing dearth of traffic on Madison Avenue.
No traffic cops either. That had changed too. One thing you had always been sure of seeing and that was a cop in New York.
When Kane asked about it, the smiles almost fled from every face, and the moment of silence seemed like a form of shock. Kane realized then that there hadn't been even a second of silence before then.
"It's hard to realize we've been away so long," Phil finally said.
"I'm really tired," Kane said to Phil as they went on past the Midtown Hotel toward Lucille's apartment. "I was intending to go directly to the hotel and rest up a while—"
"We'll relax at Lucie's," Jenny said. "We got music, we got music, we got music, who could ask for anything more?"