At the risk of stating the obvious, my intent is to assist other readers: > ... 'I never told anybody that Al's wife was a retired strip-teaser.' In text (thu

At the risk of stating the obvious, my intent is to assist other readers: > ... 'I never told anybody that Al's wife was a retired strip-teaser.' In text (thus without inflection), one can interpret this several ways. > I never told anybody ... It wasn't Harry who spilled the beans. > I never told anybody ... But Harry had photographs to show them. > I never told anybody ... Someone has blamed Harry (for making it up? for sharing truth prematurely?) and he's trying to defend himself. Presumably, however, Al's wife never was a stripper. But this second-hand account of a statement that A) may not have existed or B) was meant to indicate it was never true, brings to the mind of the viewer/listener a different version of this woman's past and could very well indict her with a questionable history.