maybe she had been kidnapped , or perhaps was lying in a ditch somewhere bleeding to death . you wound me with your words like knives . that is n't the question , she 's saying . he had me all but thrown out of your house ! '' further down the road , cars and trucks had crashed and were now abandoned on the little stretch of road . as if the mirror had been responsible for holding his image so utterly frozen and so utterly distant . she was watching a local morning news program . 