The convertible is very beat up, with words painted all over the car. While Arnold is showing the car to Connie, he comes across a group of letters. The letters on his car said 33, 19, 17. Arnold tells Connie, “Now, these numbers are a secret code, darling” (Oates 3). 33, 19, 17 can be interpreted in different ways, which make the numbers suspicious and intriguing. The most mysterious way these numbers stand out is when you look at them in a biblical context. Judges is the thirty-third book from the end of the Old Testament, and chapter nineteen of Judges is about a man who takes a woman from his home to become his lover. This man in Judges is not a good man and has Satan in his life. Judges 19 refers to “Where are you going, where have you been?” because Arnold tries to trick Connie into leaving her family behind so he can show her what true love means. Judges