CHAPTER XV--THE END OF THE MEETING

Stephen went on in her calm, cold voice:

'Did he tell you that I had asked him to marry me?' Despite herself, as she spoke the words a red tide dyed her face. It was not a flush; it was not a blush; it was a sort of flood which swept through her, leaving her in a few seconds whiter than before. Harold saw and understood. He could not speak; he lowered his head silently. Her eyes glittered more coldly. The madness that every human being may have once was upon her. Such a madness is destructive, and here was something more vulnerable than herself.

'Did he tell you how I pressed him?' There was no red tide this time, nor ever again whilst the interview lasted. To bow in affirmation was insufficient; with an effort he answered:

'I understood so.' She answered with an icy sarcasm:

'You understood so! Oh, I don't doubt he embellished the record with some of his own pleasantries. But you understood it; and that is sufficient.' After a pause she went on:

'Did he tell you that he had refused me?'

'Yes!' Harold knew now that he was under the torture, and that there was no refusing. She went on, with a light laugh, which wrung his heart even more than her pain had done . . . Stephen to laugh like that!

'And I have no doubt that he embellished that too, with some of his fine masculine witticisms. I understood myself that he was offended at my asking him. I understood it quite well; he told me so!' Then with feminine intuition she went on: What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who has an unusual name for her gender?
2. Had she asked something of someone?
3. What was it?
4. Had he told someone about it?
5. Who?
6. Was she persistant in her proposal?
7. Was her proposal accepted?
8. What color was her face when she asked Harold if he knew?
9. Was she emberassed?
10. Did Harold answer quickly?
11. How was he responding to her?
12. Did she think the object of her affection had elaborated on the story?
13. How did she think he felt to be asked such a thing?
14. How did she realize this?
15. Did she continue to speak of it?
16. With what?
17. Did Harold feel that he was being abused in some way?
18. Could he escape it?
19. How did he describe his treatment?
20. Did she find it amusing?
Answer: 1. Stephen
2. yes
3. to marry her
4. yes
5. Harold
6. yes
7. no
8. red
9. no
10. no
11. silently
12. yes
13. offended
14. he told her so
15. yes
16. with feminine intuition
17. yes
18. no
19. as torture
20. yes

(CNN) -- A former campaign staffer for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the then-congressman patted her "posterior" while at a fundraising event.

Laura Fink, who now runs a political consulting firm, told KPBS-TV that it happened in 2005 when she was working as Filner's deputy campaign manager.

Fink said she didn't go public with the incident at the time because she was trying to build her political career. But she said she now feels emboldened to tell her story after Filner's former spokeswoman, Irene McCormack Jackson, sued him for sexual harassment Monday.

Jackson said Filner subjected her and other women to "crude and disgusting" comments and inappropriate touching. She said she resigned as Filner's communications director in June after deciding the mayor would not change his behavior.

"I had to work and do my job in an atmosphere where women were viewed by Mayor Filner as sexual objects or stupid idiots," Jackson said. She said Filner asked her to work without underwear and made repeated sexual advances toward her.

"He is not fit to be mayor of our great city. He is not fit to hold any public office. A man who lacks character makes a mockery of his ideas," she said.

Fink told KPBS on Tuesday that the incident happened as she was escorting Filner from table to table at a fundraising dinner. At one point, she said, someone at the event told Filner that Fink had "worked her ass off" for him. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is getting the complaints?
2. What is the complaint?
3. Who complained?
4. Who is she?
5. What she does now?
6. Where she told all these?
Answer: 1. the San Diego Mayor Bob
2. sexual harassment
3. Laura Fink
4. former campaign staffer for the Mayor
5. she runs a political consulting firm
6. she KPBS-TV

(CNN) -- On the basis of the evidence currently in the public record, one likely outcome of the case against George Zimmerman is a mixed one: There may be sufficient evidence for a reasonable prosecutor to indict him for manslaughter, but there may also be doubt sufficient for a reasonable jury to acquit him.

Any such predictions should be accepted with an abundance of caution, however, because the evidence known to the special prosecutor, but not to the public, may paint a different picture. It may be stronger or weaker.

Media reports suggest that police found Zimmerman with grass stains on the back of his shirt, bloody bruises on the back of his head and other indicia that may support his contention that Trayvon Martin was banging his head against the ground when Zimmerman shot him.

We don't know what Martin's body or clothing show, other than the fatal bullet wound. If there are no comparable bruises or grass stains and if the bullet wound and powder residue establish that the gun was fired at very close range, this too might support a claim of self-defense.

Then there is a recorded cry for help, which, if it turns out to be the voice of Martin, would undercut the defense -- if the voice analysis passes scientific muster and is deemed admissible into evidence.

There may be additional forensic evidence -- or witnesses -- of which we are now unaware, though it is unlikely there is a "smoking gun."

Finally, there is the overarching and historically painful reality that an unarmed black teenager lies dead at the hand of an armed Hispanic man who ignored a dispatcher's advice not to follow and engage the "suspect," and who may have -- and this too is forensically unclear -- uttered a racial epithet while chasing him. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. did Zimmerman have grass stains on his shirt?
2. Was Trayvon Martin shot?
3. Was Martin armed?
4. Do we know what evidence there is from Martin's cothes?
5. Was Zimmerman bruised?
6. Is there a recorded cry for help?
7. Do we know who's cry it is?
8. Was Zimmerman advised to engage Martin?
9. Who told him not to?
10. Is the case likely to go one way over another?
Answer:
1. reports suggest
2. Yes
3. No
4. only the fatal bullet wound
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. May turn out to be the voice of Martin
8. No
9. dispatcher
10. Yes