I want to put down what that exchange actually was, because it took about nine seconds and it is the whole of her.

She did not defend the crop.

That is the thing.

She did not say I didn’t crop it or that’s how I received it or I don’t know what you mean. She had been caught, completely, in front of two witnesses, inside forty seconds of producing the item.

And she moved immediately onto different ground without pausing for breath, and the new ground was: never mind that, look at your face.

That is the manoeuvre.