`` all of a sudden you 're interested in this old house . '' and that was it , that was the ball game , because luther was right under it . if he even suspects , we are all doomed . '' `` it 's not a secret i 'm as attracted to you as i am annoyed with you . `` let alone go to some barn in the middle of nowhere . '' it would , she knew , be attached to the wall of the womb , and she peered this way and that through the gloom . 