so one assumes that these people had us in mind all along , that we were what they were working toward . jacks beach chair , cooler , and umbrella were right where tommy had put them nine days before . but the part of me hovering in the air could still see everything that was going on : i saw the first secretary lying motionless beside the candleholder bracket . and had no though other than serving her . she took it from him and saw the return address . 