YOU TURN

'Do you know what it means to be a man?' he spat. She paused to turn it over in her mind: a modicum of self-restraint, she thought, the willingness to listen from time to time, but above all else, the ability to sense, beyond the right or wrong, a deeper vein of truth. And she said to him, with a twinkle in her eye, 'A more befitting question, darling, is do you?'