for now , the tears lay in an empty well in the bottom of arnold matsons disbelieving heart , but they will arrive , as surely as the headlights on the police car had arrived earlier in the evening , before the confirmation of the discovery of the body of the reverend was delivered to him in a statement which landed with the inevitability of a christmas present one has discovered under the parental bed two weeks before it is actually placed beneath the tree as a surprise .