for that was why they had bundled everything they could not live without into suitcases and satchels and plastic shopping bags , turned the key in the lock on the apartment door ( ignoring the shrill ringing of the telephone , which seemed to penetrate that same keyhole and pursue them down the hall ) ; that was why they had filled the trunk and back seat of the rented car with all their overflowing boxes and bags and spent hours crawling north along the henry hudson parkway , then many more hours pounding up i-95 - because lily cavanaugh sawyer had once been happy here .