the passing of a single year might seem only a drop in a bucket to one who had lived 544 of them , but every day that had passed since hed been ripped away from her had seemed to last a decade . `` see how now i no longer need to draw rectangles under the curve , '' he continued . and i was just supposed to walk out of this room and leave her . he is better at this than i am . the woman you seek is within the house . '' 