Tom slapped his hand to head. "The theater! The basement! It's huge, and the Manager never lets me go down there!"
Alona smiled and said: "I knew you'd figure it out!"
Ritchie felt like reclining his chair all the way back and calling it a night, but his wife reached over and patted his hand, which was all the support he needed, all that he would ever need, to get up in spite of himself and do what had to be done.
24. Challenging assumptions "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." — Igor Stravinsky
"And there's something else about this movement business," Justin began, still sitting on the floor and leaning back against a dry portion of the couch.
"Where did Cecil go?" Julia asked, looking around the corner into the bedroom.
"I don't know. The thing about this instantaneous movement is — "
"Cecil!" she called. "Kitty, kitty, kitty!"
"He's probably in the bathroom," Justin grunted. "Hiding. He'll come out in his own time."
"I know, I'm just feeling paranoid right now."