A "working title" is a title by which an author or a movie director
can refer to his work in progress, with the understanding that they
don't intend for that to be the title of the final product, and that
it'll definitely change before it goes out to the public.
That way, they don't have to keep calling it "the book I'm writing" or
"the movie I'm working on". Instead, they can talk about "Cover to Cover"
or "Thirty Frames a Second", even though those are crummy titles.
You can that aunt marry is someone who is very nervous and cautious by how the author used the word shrieked and how you can infer she was scared by the tone of the story
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