even more shocking was the fact that she found herself accepting the offer and monies , rather brightly and cheerfully on the phone while she was talking to some strange man with a creepy deep voice who was named professor clive redtooth and who seemed awfully interested in her welfare , and asked if she was coming to santa rosita on her own , and why had she lied and said yes , all the while knowing perfectly well that the economics of tide pool environments sucked , but she was going on with that and moving to santa rosita with robert , somehow expecting something good to coming out of a relationship with a person whose main interest was his surfboard .