" Meanwhile, in the coach""s office, the strings on a tennis racket began to supernaturally melt and snap, and a basketball fell off the equipment shelf and bounced around the room.A black pool opened up at my feet.I dived in.It had no bottom.I felt pretty good, like an amputated leg.After regaining consciousness by the car, a young woman [identified later as Ann Grayle] blinded him by shining a flashlight into his eyes, while asking: "Are you all right? What happened? Oh!" She slowly came into focus.He ended his words: "Don""t forget to visit your mother."The next day at Adrian""s grave, Robert told his father that he had quit his job ("I didn""t fit in there") and confessed: "Right now, I""d rather be with you.Roaring drunk and oblivious o time""s passing - almost a half-hour late, he arrives home just as Wick calls for a taxi and departs for the country alone.Dysfunctional tensions rose when the patriarch""s booze-soaked son quickly courted and married the company""s respectable, sensible good-girl executive secretary Lucy (Bacall).