she was escorting a frail old lady ( later identified as her grandmother ) back from communion , guiding her gently by one elbow , and blaise looked up and saw her and saw her see him and both had the half-guilt of knowing each had inadvertently let their eyes linger on the other a second too long in something like lust but he did not care because he did not know when he would get down to this part of town again ( hopefully never ) and so he ditched the old men he was with and don had an inkling of what was going down but blaise 's dad did n't have a clue but blaise did not care because when he saw she was leaving with the old woman out the side door he did not so much as excuse himself from the two old men and instead moved with jungle cat alacrity and interposed himself between them and the holy water .