Answer:
George and Lennie met as a result of George originally meeting and getting to know Lennie's Aunt Clara.
Explanation:
My last answer was deleted for being pointless, but I had to add more letters for the correct, succinct answer to be published. The right answer is "a sentence".
One pun is where Fortunato reveals that he is a member of the Freemasons and Montresor says that he too is a "mason." It is a pun because he does not mean a "Freemason"; he means a mason, a craftsman who does brickwork, the kind Montresor plans to perform on Fortunato to seal him in the catacombs forever.
