he would have to get up now , go to the door and open it , go down the hall to the stairs , walk down the stairs , walk into the dining room , then into the plant-lined little room that had once been a laundry but which was now a sewing room , and stand there while regina looked up at him ( she would be wearing her half-glasses for the close work ) , and say 'regina , arnie has been arrested by the new york state police . '