Domestic scenes seem particularly intrusive to Ramona, although all the non-Muscheron memories she's walked through today have seemed to her to be suffused with sadness. It doesn't seem right to linger in them longer than she needs to.

"Let's just find the linchpin and go," she suggests instead of answering Presley's half-asked question. Her attention is more immediately drawn to the tape gun, and she carefully crosses the room to take it from Marilynn's hand.