`` at that time , uh , '' tony stopped a second to gather up a stare , nearly misty eyeda fog coming on , with maybe a toot on the schnaz in orderhe could be reaching back to an old comic 's days in the catskills or , better , some slow olden days in newarkas if a tear should work its way up out of his narrator 's eyes : what would be better than to have a pretty secretary step forward and give him a kiss on the cheek ?