so he 'd wait for news she was okay . he always listened to it when he tried to cook . ray weighed the truth against the sweet deal he had here , with an apartment and under-the-table income and a boss that had really been a decent guy before he went 51/50 , and he said , `` yeah , there was something strange about her . '' `` now that you 're al buddy-buddy with them , they 're off-limits ? '' and years more , to discover who was hiding the object . 