"I know that.  You weren't even near me." She, who daily handled live cobras and who had more than once handled obnoxious drunks with her bare hands (to their sorrow), was not afraid.  Patricia Paiwonski was not afraid of the Devil himself; she was sustained by her faith that she was saved and therefore invulnerable to the Devil.  But she was uneasy for the safety of her friends. "Smitty... look me in the eye.  Have you made a pact with the Devil?"