"Jesse, who rematerialized at the end of all of this, had a little smile on his face, having clearly overheard. "It isn't funny," I said to him sourly. "It's a little funny," he said. "No," I said, "it isn't." "I think," Jesse said, cracking open the book Father Dom had loaned him, "it's time for a little reading out loud." "No," I groaned. "Not . Please, I am begging you. It's not fair, I can't even run away." "I know," Jesse said with a gleam in his eyes. "At last I have you where I want you ..." I have to admit, my breath kind of caught in my throat when he said that. But of course he didn't mean what I him to mean. He just meant that now he could read his stupid book out loud, and I couldn't escape."