"Yes, he did."
"It didn't do him any good."
"No, it didn't."
"Move on, Baby, you're holding up the line," Big Marie said.
Miss Tweedham took the bum-bum gun.
"Do you know how to operate it?" Sanderson said.
She turned the weapon in her fingers. "Yes, I know how to use it."
"Eh?" Sanderson seemed startled.
"Move on, Baby," Big Marie said again. Miss Tweedham moved on. Big Marie took a bum-bum gun. In addition, she requested a knife. From another box Sanderson supplied her with a blade ten inches long. She tested the edge on her thumb. "I'll have to hone it," she said.
"Be sure you remember whose throat you are to cut," Sanderson said.