“Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?”
“So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?”
“A token of bathroom stoner etiquette.”
“Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.”
“I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’.”
“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”