suppose , he thought , watching her bring her mug of tea to her mouth with both hands and sipping at his own , suppose we were sitting here one night , with books in our hands ( we 'd look , to an outsider , as if we were reading , and we might be , a little , but what we 'd really be doing is savoring the silence as if it were some particularly fine wine , the way only parents of very young children can savor it , because they have so little of it ) , and further suppose that while we were doing that , a meteorite crashed through the roof and landed , smoking and glowing , on the livingroom floor .