30 minutes , thomas , she sat on one of the two stools he used in his interviews . there were hard words , for it is long since war has driven us from the green fields ; but there have been no evil deeds . and then she thought , what if he was sick ? but they had no idea what they were walking into as they pulled the car out and started up the winding road . by the end of her third lap , allowing him five minutes of whatever started looking like a real possibility . 