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Show 341 Lorin thought for a minute. "No, I don't think so. Not very much anyway." "I'm sorry, Elder, I couldn't quite hear you." " I said I'm afraid I didn't need very much coercion." "I suppose you'd better t e l l us about i t ." "There i s n ' t much to t e l l , actually. She was crying again." "Excuse me," said one of Lorin's advocates. "Does i t seem to anybody else that the young lady does a lot of that?" "I was thinking the same thing," said Elder Warnick. The clerk had gotten up and was adjusting dials again. "She doesn't cry all that much," Lorin said, afraid he had left a wrong impression. "This was only the second time I've seen her do i t , I think." " S t i l l , do you think you might have been pressured just a l i t t l e by her crying, Elder Hood? I'm trying to get both sides of the picture." "Maybe just a l i t t l e , " Lorin said. "I think we can stipulate that Elder Hood had ample encouragement," the mission president said. "Let's move on. What happened?" Lorin did his very best to give an account of the last meeting that would be objective, clear, and comprehensible. He did not mention the swarm of associations that went with i t , because they had been subjective. At the end of i t there was a long pause while the tape recorder ground slowly on. Then someone said, "She picked up a sock?" "She was just trying to cover herself," said Lorin. "It was just a reflex. She panicked." " I don't get i t , " said one of the men who hadn't spoken hefore. He was heated and red-faced. "There were only two men in the house, and |