Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
Do it, and you’ll often get an answer you don’t want, an answer that might wreck your case.
He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it.
He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.
I beat him up twice but it did no good.