`` you 're forty-years-old , do n't you think it 's time for you to settle down and get married ? '' i got why she did , and the last thing i wanted to do was break her heart by telling her there was no way we could risk doing that right now . he did n't have a lot of energy on the mountain today ... '' i nudged her with my elbow . lock me up like the animals in the basement ? she peered at it for a moment before answering . 