the skin was painted in white make-up from forehead to chin . `` you have n't been smoking , snorting , sniffing- '' `` no . '' she did n't dare look too long toward the open doorway and the thing lurking beyond . he sat his scotch down on the table next to him and pulled a gun out of his jacket . the problem is a bit deeper than just that . `` he just left , i 'm afraid , '' breeze said . i do n't think we would be together had she not been around . 