`` the ability to smell a lie a mile away . '' the lights of the house glowed yellow off her pale face , off her swift fingers as she signed . `` i loved her , but she was n't the woman i wanted her to be . '' if they came up to the house , there 'd be trouble , like there had been before . like he was seeing someone else in his head . he stumbled forward and tried to grab her hand , but she backed out of his reach . 