"It's got a lake."
"It's got a lake," she agreed.
The wind came up the slope and lifted the snow off the tops of the stones in little veils. Somewhere at the bottom of the hill a car went by on Ridge Road with its radio on, and a scrap of music floated up, a woman singing about something, and was gone.
"She wants you to come for dessert," Lena said. "My mother. She said to tell you there's cannoli and she'll be insulted if you don't eat at least four of them."
He turned and looked at her then.
"She said that?"
"Roughly," Lena said. "She said a lot of things. That was the end of it. And Joey told on himself. At the table. In front of everybody. About Operation Snowfall."