Rhetorical questions

Sir, – To follow up on Stephen Lane's letter (April 10th) questioning the right of rhetorical questions to appear, is it not obvious that a letters page without rhetorical questions would be like a world without humming birds? After all, do humming birds just hum because they don't know the words? – Yours, etc,

DERMOT O’ROURKE,

Lucan,

Co Dublin.