`` take a walk over to the window with me . '' the earl felt his bones beginning to self-fracture . no one will take you away from me . it should be cooler out there , he suggested . then he bent lower and stared at the shore-line . there was a bathroom , a back bedroom , and a kitchen with a wood-burning stove and a well pump above the basin . and they would n't like me peeking at their thinks . `` it 's not my fault that he did n't know how to fall . '' 