They had changed in Africa. Not great, and there were plenty of details still to be worked out, but it looked okay.
But its not going to work. He had taken none of them — knowing he had them put aside, a form of Annie-insurance, was enough. " She was staring at him with horrified eyes, her hands pressed so tightly over her mouth that the nails were white. Paul recognized it only by the attached barn — he had, after all, never seen the house itself from the outside.
When he tried to bend it into a fist, it felt as though long rods of metal had been pushed through it at random. If I offended you, Im truly sorry.
Annie Wilkes might be surprised to know just how strong they were now — and he sincerely hoped that someday soon she would be. He was curious but not really nervous — he had been surprised, really, at how easy it had been to slip back into Miserys world.