i would have had you drugged and out of this apartment in a second ! after sliding under the covers beside her , he gathered her close . `` tell them you 're selling encyclopedias . '' `` you know what our situation is . `` it is n't really an official case . `` got to look after the place , '' she reminded him . `` he 's never short of words when he 's talking to me . the specter showed me the wild hunt of old , the hounds as they once were . 