what doe "I got caught up"here mean?
“We should go back to bed.” Her smile was full of promise. “I bet I can help you sleep.”
“There’s another reason I love you. You always have really good ideas.” But as he took her hand, he remembered. “Jesus, I got caught up.”
“A habit of yours.”
“No, I mean I forgot why I came out here in the first place, why I couldn’t sleep. I went up and started working on the books—the led-gers, the accounts.”
“All those numbers and columns?” Instinctively she reached up to rub at temples she imagined ached. “You should have nodded off inside five minutes.”
“I found it, Abra. I found Esmeralda’s Dowry.”
“What? How? My God, Eli! You’re a genius.” She grabbed him, cir-cled and swayed. “Where?”
“It’s here.”