They'd do something horrible, maybe kill off a few protagonists, and then make people sit around waiting for the next terrible thing to come along. They called it “setting up a jump scare.”

After some moments of interchanging messages with the leaders on the platform, during which the suspense in the hall was tremendously taut, the police left saying that the women arrested would have to report themselves at Bow Street the following morning.

She had never been into these crowded streets alone before, and, dazzled by the glittering shop-windows, and confused by the headlong throng and seemingly interminable confusion of their traffic, got herself into continual scrapes by running against the different people she met, receiving such sarcastic admonitions in return as, 'That's your way, my darling,' accompanied by a smart shove from a young gentleman, with a round wooden tray of fresh butter and other cheesemongeries on his head, which she had nearly overturned in the concussion;

One of the church's great roles is as the great dissenter of every age, the bearer of unwelcome truths, the rebuffer of the wisdoms of the world.