but the simple fact was that the town needed something to build on , something to get people to visit , something to make them spend a couple of days in town so they could experience how wonderful this place was . how i had missed that handsome face . `` did that have anything to do with your leaving ? '' i can see her with another guy , reading something . was that arriving in time to join his family for a meal , or arriving in time to be the meal ? `` he did n't seem to know it . '' 