i suppose i am a silly old woman , because i got thinking about that alfred hitchcock presents show where there was a crazyman who could just about charm the birdies down from the.trees , only he 'd used an axe to chop somebody all up , you know , and put the pieces in the trunk of his car , and they only caught him because one of his taillights was out , or something like that - but the other side of it was - ' 'mrs arsenault , i wonder if i could ask - ' ' - was that i did n't want to be like the philistine or saracen or gomorran or whoever it was that passed by on the other side of the road , ' mrs arsenault continued .