‘Cooked Her Goose’

I once made an appointment with an elderly woman in the Church, as she had become oppositional. But when I arrived at her home, she wasn't there. I looked up at her balcony from the street below, pressed the doorbell several times, but no response. Soon after this, stories began to circulate in the Church about the meeting I had supposedly had with her, and my scandalous behaviour in her home, all in perfect detail. The appointment itself was on the books, and not to be denied. OBSERVATION: My salvation came from an unexpected quarter. It came from the woman herself. She began to make similar allegations against Church office-bearers -- who similarly had not seen her -- and so she "cooked her goose".