“Well — I wouldn’t advise you to do that, Mrs. Cool.”
“Why not?”
“Well, there are certain things about the complaint which impressed me as being rather ambiguous. The document quite evidently was hastily drawn. I think it is subject to a special demurrer, and perhaps to a general demurrer as well.”
“What’s a demurrer?”
“That’s another pleading — a paper filed in court — in which you point out defects in the complaint.”
“And what happens after you file that?”
“You argue it.”
“Is the other lawyer there?”
“Oh, yes, naturally.”
“Then what happens?”