and then , after she had finally sailed over the horizon of his life , he could maybe take those tennis lessons he 'd been thinking of for such a long time ( eddie often seems very well and happy in his physical-education classes ) or there were the pool memberships they were selling at the un plaza hotel ( eddie loves to play games ) not to mention that health club which had opened up on third avenue across from the garage ... ( eddie runs quite fast he runs quite fast when you 're not here runs quite fast when there 's nobody around to remind him of how delicate he is and i see in his face mrs kaspbrak that he knows even now at the age of nine he knows that the biggest favor in the world he could do himself would be to run fast in any direction you 're not going let him go mrs kaspbrak let him run ) but in the end he had married myra anyway .