`` i also knew riley had tracked you down and extracted a promise that you would n't suddenly decide that with one secret revealed it was time to let the rest of the skeletons out of the closet and admit he was your son . '' they sit there , tucked into a ball without a word for quite some time . the subject was punching numbers and glancing around . he stepped through the splinter-littered doorway . i added another note to the curious things folder , which by now was bulging dangerously . the ropes seemed wound pretty tightly around her . 