you may then return , or you may sign up for further duty . `` i want you to be comfortable when we go out , '' he was saying . now it was all just meat . dicky had always told himself that when one door closed , another must open . unfortunately , all of them enclose my flesh . he said , his eyebrows shooting upward . he said what he thought she wanted to hear . in fact , he probably remembered it better than i did . typical procedure is to walk them off the nearest cliff . 