my mother said , yes , let me see what we have here , and opened her jewelry box that shed had ever since i could remember . ( although maybe guys only did that in chick flicks ; she did n't know . ) but her parents were frail , they would need help , and so that was where she would head for . worse than a ghost , i think , but i do n't say that . the first few drops of a spring shower landed with a thud on the stone slab that covered the coffin . 