`` he 's going to be there and he 's coming alone . that 's all they smell of ... ' she thought of the wall of words . i must go , says eve to the captain . they were all young mothers , teenagers without exception whose mothers had also been teenagers and whose fathers were generally unknown . a baby somewhere far off in the house . `` then he told us what the spirits had already told us . `` i can not wait to have you , '' he said on a breath of desire . 