Thank you all for leaving feedback. :-)
Michael, "queen of one-liners"? I like that.
QotC, thanks for the Bizarro challenges. They seem to be sparking more stories ideas in me than the regular ones. I wonder what that says about me? Maybe I don't want to know.
Virginia and Deadly Chakram, after I had posted the story, I had thought about shortening the title. Then I remembered the problems that the site's search engine had had with finding another story whose title I had changed (to correct a typo). I therefore figured I'd just stick with the original (lengthy) title. But since you both made suggestions similar to what I had been thinking, I decided to go ahead and shorten the title after all, and to make the original title into a subtitle.
Lady Loisette, both good questions, and both questions that I leave to the reader to answer. (Can you tell that "The Lady or the Tiger" had quite an impact on me when I read it as a child?)
Oops... DS is waking up. I'd best away.
Joy,
Lynn
Michael
You do as much with three lines as I do with three parts. You are indeed the master of brevity. 
