Well, she was a big woman. She would find them if she took it into her head to turn the mattress, he supposed, but that was a chance he was prepared to take.
"Goliath asked abruptly. That tone coming from a cop would have been amusing under other circumstances, but these were not other circumstances and Paul was not amused. He had nearly finished the turn when he heard an approaching car and knew, simply knew it was her, returning from town. He sat in his chair, eyes half-closed, hoping madly that he had gotten the chair back where it had been (or at least close enough to it so she wouldnt notice), hoping that she would take his sweat-drenched face and quivering body simply as reactions to missing his medication, hoping most of all that he hadnt left a track It was as the door swung open that he looked, down and saw that by looking for individual tracks with such agonized concentration, he had ignored a whole buffalo run: the boxes of Novril were still in his lap.
She closed the bulkhead, shot the bolt, and stood back, surveying the puddly driveway and the grass, which looked as though a heavy dew had fallen upon it. "All of us sorrow at her passing.
Hurt or not, that man had had the guts to at least try to stand up to Annie Wilkes. He traced the phone cord with his eye, saw the small square module on the baseboard, saw that the jack was plugged into it.