`` you 're pale as a ghost and eager for a ride . a mark he would carry for the rest of his life . `` how late did you work last night ? '' i do n't think he knows how to rhyme . '' today was about you and me ... it was about us . '' for that matter , he wondered if he should go home himself . she could remember the very day when she 'd cast off the last of those who had presumed to be the real power behind the throne . 