she had only been working under her direction for a few months but already there was a closer bond between them than she could ever have had with the aloof and independent douglas . `` i knew you would be this way . `` i found myself with no money and nowhere to go . `` but you can go days without feeding if you have to , and from what you 're saying , that was n't true before . '' he looked at it from the perspective that he always did his work . 