“She was going to teach me how to play Scrabble.” confessed the general, pulling the board game from behind his back. " I was ashamed and didn’t want anyone to find out…I thought I could trust your wife with the secret that I didn’t know how to play…"

“I didn’t know you were coming to the house. We were supposed to play in the library.”

“I was too scared to play in public…” said the general, looking down at his shoes.

“Well, one more person doesn’t make it that much more difficult…”