`` believe what you want , but it was n't me . we 'd have been deaf not to hear her . '' she had n't been lying about her lack of experience ; he was sure of it . even that little bit of craft was almost too much . her teeth ground together as her nails sank into his arm . she spotted the lights of a plane already on the ground and rolling in to the airport . marshal was n't getting anything out of this but a good story he could n't tell anyone . 