the response was a wet , chilly cloth to my face . `` wherever you want , so long as it 's on this side of that door . '' i did n't care about his family or how rich they were . at one point she almost said she had no intention of stealing his silverware . something in the way she was speaking and holding herself stopped him . he had n't known then , but he knew now . he has al her books , and he boasts about how they 're friends . '' 