In Chapter 15, a group of men show up at Atticus' house to discuss their concerns about Tom's upcoming trial and their concerns about Atticus having taken the case. Link Deas tells Atticus that he has "everything to lose" by taking Tom's case. Atticus responds, "Do you really think so?" Scout says this is Atticus' dangerous question. In other words, Atticus asks this question in the attempt to get the other person to rethink things.
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In Chapter 15, a group of men show up at Atticus' house to discuss their concerns about Tom's upcoming trial and their concerns about Atticus having taken the case. Link Deas tells Atticus that he has "everything to lose" by taking Tom's case. Atticus responds, "Do you really think so?" Scout says this is Atticus' dangerous question. In other words, Atticus asks this question in the attempt to get the other person to rethink things.
This was Atticus’s dangerous question. “Do you really think you want to move there, Scout?” Bam, bam, bam, and the checkerboard was swept clean of my men. “Do you really think that, son? Then read this.” Jem would struggle the rest of an evening through the speeches of Henry W. Grady.
The next evening, Atticus goes out for the evening but he does something that strikes Jem and Scout as quite odd:
We parted at suppertime, and after our meal Jem and I were settling down to a routine evening, when Atticus did something that interested us: he came into the livingroom carrying a long electrical extension cord. There was a light bulb on the end.
Atticus did have a custom of going for a walk during the evenings but the extension cord and the light suggest something strange to Jem. This is why he follows Atticus downtown. Scout and Dill go with Jem and they discover that Atticus has gone to guard the Maycomb jail where Tom is being held. A mob does show up, presumably to lynch Tom, but Atticus and the intervening children convince the mob to go home.
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