She misses, causing him to calmly respond:You""re losing your eye.You used to be able to pitch better than that.To entice her to stay as one of the paper""s few quality writers/reporters that has enough smarts to cover the Earl Williams case, he pretends that his only other writer capable of doing the job, Sweeney, is at the hospital tending to his wife having a baby: "Everything happens to me.He sits staring blankly ahead, positioned in his room in front of his aquarium tank (while observing its occupants) and wanting to be alone with his thoughts...(unfinished)." Oddly enough, black curtains hang by the living room""s window and a all, heavy wooden secretary blocks a closet in the hall.In the warmth of sunshine in church, her heart became so full of salvation that it burst with peace and joy, and her soul flew up to God in heaven "and no one there asked about he red shoes.