Day passed awayNight fell. He had an anxious moment when he was afraid it would no longer fit flush against its mates (and God!
He forced his eyes open. Now he looked back at her, startled out of the careful neutrality he had maintained all through his visit. He slid down a bit in the wheelchair — giving out a single barking groan — and looked through it. Some part of him that was as addicted to the chapter-plays as Annie had been as a child had decided he could not die until he saw how it all came out.
Most seemed to feel that the Dragon Lady should be jabbed to death with hot forks, and most indicated they would be very willing to serve as a jabber. "She frowned at the calendar.
She came in that evening around quarter of twelve and said: "You should have been in bed an hour ago, Paul. It took Paul five endless minutes of backing and filling to get the wheelchair exactly where he wanted it, with the left wheel almost touching the door.