My way was to creep up, toss in a grenade--Delmore considered you a serious menace to criticism--then melt away before he could get off a shot.
They did not want to get caught.
mnli hypothesis: They did not want to get caught. premise: My way was to creep up, toss in a grenade--Delmore considered you a serious menace to criticism--then melt away before he could get off a shot.