There was a thin line between observation and stalking. Observation entailed making informed assessments about a person’s actions to facilitate determinations of the person’s character.
Stalking was a crude term for dedicated observation; because really, how else could you know a person if you don’t know their schedule and their favourite colour and which curse word is their favourite for when they slam their knee on the coffee table in the morning? Obviously, you can’t.
“Oh, here – I think you dropped this.”
Or perhaps it’d been ‘liberated’ and now returned, but let’s not argue semantics.
