kitt or betsy witherspoon. prof. anderson: she then talks about -- and she goes in an entirely different -- are you ever going to tell us? it's like you are in third grade, tell me a story. story time. be like my wife. she reads the end of every book first to determine whether she wants to read the story. [laughter] prof. anderson: does anybody else do this? because i consider it very odd, very awkward, indeed. buy a book, read it back, then decide whether you're going to read it. student: what if it is a bad ending? prof. anderson: see, you are an unhappy person because you are already thinking bad thoughts. [laughter] student: if someone dies by the -- hasn't died by the end, i don't read it. [laughter] prof. anderson: how very "deliverance" of you, how very southern gothic of you. you do that. i know you do. so, instead of telling us -- the whole chronology that she established here is in some ways a device. it allows her to keep this level of suspense going. her husband goes off to investigate what happens. so we