Reading my case yesterday, as the officers of the court question the mother-in-law of the suspected poisoner:
Q: Is there any rumor as to who it was who tried to poison your son?
A: Yes: everybody says it was his wife.
Q: And do they say why she might have tried to poison him?
A: Because she wanted him to die.
(I like to imagine the last delivered in an incredulous, "well, duh!" voice. I also like to imagine the rolling of the eyes as the inquisitor followed up with "Well, why did she want him to die?")
This is a somewhat dodgy one to have follow your Thanksgiving domesticity post, heh heh.
ReplyDeleteDon't you love those exchanges? And the real question is this: do YOU think the wife did it? Does she have a reason to want to be a widow?
ReplyDeleteDuh, indeed. And yet.... she's the one who died. So did they ask her mother who and why?
ReplyDeleteThis really is Montaillou-level stuff, isn't it? You gotta stick with this, ma'am. It's... it's for the good of history.
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