`` you 're too late , '' she told him . still , he had to get better about being on watch . i thought she was a big second grader but she was the same age as i was . `` everything this woman 's done since day one has been calculated . im something of a special case , you know . everything i did , everything i said , every damn time . the woman was frail but attractive , with short gray hair cut in a fashionable bob . 