Because I Won
Cuff proposes a wardrobe search that includes everyone who slept in the house. The women will consent, he says, if the examination runs from her ladyship downwards. Rachel refuses outright, in tears, with no better reason than that she will not. She must yield to force if they use it, and to nothing else. The professional method collapses on a girl who will not perform cooperation.
Key Insight
A refused search is evidence of a boundary, not automatically of guilt. Sit with a third possibility: she is protecting a fact she cannot yet survive saying.
“I won't, because I won't. I must yield to force if you use it, but I will yield to nothing else.”Full analysis
