"Were you looking for something?" he asked her.
"No," she said. "Yes."
"That's not what is called, in a court of law, a responsive answer."
"It wasn't a simple question," she said, tried to smile and burst into tears.
She was sorry and said so.
"Why?" he asked.
"Well—one doesn't have emotional explosions in public."
"You do. I don't know this one you're talking about."
"I guess I don't either, now that you mention it."
"Tell the truth then. No sense in going around and around about it: He'll think that I... and the like. I'll think what I think, whatever you say. Or—go down the mountain and just don't say any more." She did not turn to go, so he added: "Try the truth, then. If it's important, it's simple. And if it's simple it's easy to say."