21.   The questions will get tougher and the consequences will become more severe.

22.   The question got sticky in October when French officials suggested that Paris looked askance at having coins with the image of the pope as legal tender in France.

23.   The questions got louder as I neared Atlanta, where Lyn soon would discover I had broken our deal, pressed Al into hauling plants.

24.   The questions got louder.

25.   The timing question gets sticky if Gugliotta hesitates.

26.   Then came the bridge, and the questions got sharper.

27.   Then the questions get serious.

28.   Their questions got the kids going on the subject of why these ostensible opposites were hung in the same room.

29.   Unfortunately, the questions only get more complicated.

30.   Unfortunately, the question has gotten harder to answer in just the past three years.