`` today 's the day , '' he said in a whisper . though i had enough indications for quite a while , enough to make it obvious to me who the anonymous writer was . ten years , and i still could n't get those damn eyes out of my head . as said earlier , id been awake most of the night thinking . so far , i had seen them exactly twice , at a thanksgiving dinner and at a wedding , and they both struck me as the kind of people i did n't want to screw with . 