At the mention of beagle puppies, Norton lights up, temporarily distracted from strategic flirtation.
"I had a dachshund back--" Before he was kidnapped here. But he obviously can't say that to Norman's face in the middle of a party. "--back in London. Her owner tragically passed away so I took her in." Everything about those two sentences is technically true, while leaving out so many details as to be wildly misleading, but polite conversation is often like that.
"When I first acquired her I had a roommate to help me care for her, though." His boyfriend, but they did live together so calling him a roommate is yet another true but wildly misleading statement. "What about you, Doctor? Who do you have to keep you from being lonely? Wife? Dog? Roommate?"
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At the mention of beagle puppies, Norton lights up, temporarily distracted from strategic flirtation.
"I had a dachshund back--" Before he was kidnapped here. But he obviously can't say that to Norman's face in the middle of a party. "--back in London. Her owner tragically passed away so I took her in." Everything about those two sentences is technically true, while leaving out so many details as to be wildly misleading, but polite conversation is often like that.
"When I first acquired her I had a roommate to help me care for her, though." His boyfriend, but they did live together so calling him a roommate is yet another true but wildly misleading statement. "What about you, Doctor? Who do you have to keep you from being lonely? Wife? Dog? Roommate?"