This puzzle is all about the upon hearing a word ending in "-er", the respone is something like "but I hardly know her!" This is the answer to each of the questions posed in the puzzle, as hinted at by the flavor text. Each question contains two separate clues for words, one of which is the other phonetically combined with "her".
| Question | w/o "her" | w/ "her" | # of ?'s |
| Why does she enjoy the taste of rescue? | SAVE | SAVOUR | 1 |
| Why does she consider the middle of the globe to be the same????? | EQUATE | EQUATOR | 5 |
| Why should I use force in order to open her previous conviction?? | PRY | PRIOR | 2 |
| Why can her truth contribute to a result or outcome?? | FACT | FACTOR | 2 |
| Why use a quantity to deprive her of sensation? | NUMB | NUMBER | 1 |
| Why is she so thorough to fix the result of an election??? | RIG | RIGOR | 3 |
| Why does she care for being not tough?? | TEND | TENDER | 2 |
| Why would a crop force her into a tough situation??? | CORN | CORNER | 3 |
| Why can she smell a lyric poem?? | ODE | ODOR | 2 |
| Why would she let a nocturnal mammal be one at the plate, perhaps?? | BAT | BATTER | 2 |
| Why should a tattoo make her become subject to an expense?? | INK | INCUR | 2 |
| Why would a movie electrician cause her to blunder? | GAFFE | GAFFER | 2 |
| Why does she smell, for one, a remover of obscenities?? | SENSE | CENSOR | 2 |
| Why would she give a gun to a medieval attire?? | ARM | ARMOR | 2 |
Taking the words, either those with or sans "her", and indexing by the number of question marks in the question yields the answer, STRANGER DANGER.