Scout

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
Do it, and you’ll often get an answer you don’t want, an answer that might wreck your case.

“Look here.” With a click of her tongue she thrust out her bridgework, a gesture of cordiality that cemented our friendship.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it.
He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.
I beat him up twice but it did no good.

When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time.
Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.