“Murder?” I asked.
“Of course not. I just said that to make him leave me alone.”
“But you did threaten to give him the works?”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t that the same as saying you’d kill him?”
“I tell you I don’t know what I meant. I just wanted him out of the way. I’d have threatened to pull the moon out of the sky and beat his head in with it if the idea had occurred to me. I was crazy mad.”
“Think anyone heard you?”
“No.”
“You had climbed over this fence?”
“Yes.”