`` there 's a map , '' she told me , turning her head slowly to look at the smoking house . no one forced me into this . thank you for my wife and pop , i say . your single claim to righteousness is the grace of god . she had to stop reminding him of his memory loss . `` riding , '' she murmured as she walked past , deliberately brushing her body against his . the colony seemed much larger than a few days earlier when they last walked through it . shock made me feel almost faint . 