тАЬNow and then Mrs. Groener used to scream,тАЭ the big man explained, тАЬwhen sheтАЩd been drinking heavily IтАЩd leave the bedroom. It may have been a rebuke or summons to me, or a fighting challenge to the whiskey bottle, or simply an expression of her rather dark evaluation of life. But it had never meant anything more real than thatтАФuntil tonight.тАЭ