she ran a hand over her belly and told the child to grow faster , grow faster , and she heard a car door slam and knew by the sound of it that it was that fool jessie tell 's car and that luther must have brung that sorry man home with him , the two of them probably high as balloons that 178 had lost their strings , and she got up from her chair and put her mask on and tied it behind her head as luther came through the door .