on one or two occasions. Hence she teasingly threatened that if I didn’t speak to her when she saw me next, she would kiss me. Sheer, unmitigated terror! No problem, you say. All you have to do is henceforth to speak to her. Oh? You don’t understand that such jesting threats bring on a kind of social paralysis. Mysterious it is. But for some inexplicable reason one simply ‘can’t’ speak to a woman who threatens to smooch you if you don’t speak to her. It was so bad that when three of our local churches