in fact , he was the one who told me you would meet beside that pitiful bush you call an oak tree . `` a husband could be much more than sexual bait . but that was a dream and i knew dreams did n't come true . `` you think it might hurt her ? '' haul them up through the bedroom . '' were hired by the state to check these out , the man said . how would that have gotten up here ? somehow it felt the same , but he knew it wasnt . 