 There were no more things to do now. No more steps to take cautiously, carefully. I was on the top of the ladder now and I could reach out and pluck the stars right out of the sky. I had to stay up there. I had to stay up there. I wasn't nervous at all, Val. You'd have thought I'd been doing that sort of thing all my life. You're wonderful, Edith. All I remember is the blood on the carpet.