there 's no one we need to apologize to , nothing we have to explain . `` no danger - i am in no danger . how did you touch yourself thinking of me that night ? '' i could n't remember any of it as well as i remembered my father 's voice going strange when he told me we needed to talk . and she did n't and we did n't , and that 's the way it was . and that 's where the little old-fashioned house will be in the snow , north from here . '' 