if she could put a big enough wedge there , maybe she could offer to pay kelly sufficient money to admit the marriage was fake . she never would say exactly what . i noticed that his eyes had suddenly become very shiny , i looked away quickly . and he could n't have told you , even privately , what the truth of his position was . '' we were quite worried there for a while . `` i take it you want to place an order . '' it was n't a polite question , but it needed to be asked . 