Are You suprised ?

E.g. You just come home or I'll…

E.g. Good intention but…
Question-in-the-Narrative changes the real nature of a question and turns it into a SD. Normally, questions are asked by one person and expected to be answered by another. A question-in-the-narrative is asked and answered by one and the same person, usually the author. It has strong emotional implication and close to a rhetoric question (to which the answer is not really necessary), because here the answer is not known for sure.

E.g. How long must it go on? How long must we suffer? Where is the end? What is the end? (Norris)

E.g. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. (Dickens)