In To Kill a Mockingbird, older narrator Jean Louise reports a conversation her younger self, Scout, had with Miss Maudie Atkinson about the notorious neighborhood recluse Boo Radley. Scout tells Miss Maudie the rumors about Boo, and Miss Maudie dismisses them with disdain, blaming them in part on local gossip Stephanie Crawford.

"Stephanie once told me that she woke up in the middle of the night and Boo was standing by her bed, looking down at her," Miss Maudie says. "I asked her, 'What did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him?' That shut her up."

Jean Louise comments, "I was sure it did. Miss Maudie's voice was enough to shut anyone up."

Took me years to get that joke.