`` made me all weak in the knees to see a guy do that . once , when she was ten , she had managed to sneak out of the most boring piano recital in human history and discovered the door beneath these main stairs . i walked up beside lucy and we headed for the schoolhouse . and the soldiers , well , are soldiers . with a click from the double , solid glass doors that were the same blue as alicias stone , we went inside and out of the blowing rain . `` because i never wanted to upset you . 