perfect for what he was contemplating doing to her . `` something moved , dropped from sight beyond the second hill into the low spot . she runs next to us in the street , screaming something i ca n't understand . i pushed my sunglasses up on the bridge of my nose and urged my horse on faster . i asked , my voice now rising higher and higher . `` well , if it is n't he-man . '' he asked , trying not to sound sarcastic . he wondered what it would have been like to grow up with a grandfather . 