"John!" Her eyes were fixed on him with terrible intensity.
"I'm not nuts," he said. "The men outside setting up the machine guns are the ones who are crazy, not me." Deep inside he was quite sure he meant what he had said.
"What are they going to do with the guns, daddy?" Johnny asked.
"Guns, daddy," Teresa echoed.
"They're going to use them to make loud noises," Holder answered. "If I try to run, they will point them at me and make loud noises and I will fall down."
"And go boom?" Teresa asked. She thought this was amusing.
Johnny suddenly sensed the seriousness of the situation. "I don't want you to fall down, daddy," he said.
"That's the kind of world we live in," Holder answered. "Sooner or later, everybody has to fall down. There's a law—"
"John!" Marie spoke.