you could make yourself crazy , thinking these things . it was the wrong car , the wrong license plate . it was a moment of extreme crisis for amber . my father drove me home a few days later . mind you , wizards could get on one another 's nerves in opposite corners of a very large field . `` you always did like the opera . '' ruth , however , was not ready yet , and pleaded for `` five more minutes '' which turned forty-five . 