It was to make the final meaning of that room the opposite of what Preston had tried to make it mean.

He had used that space to say: this is what happens to women who do not know their place.

The center says, in the same room, with his own stolen money: no, this is what happens now — here is shelter, here is a lawyer, here is a counselor, here is a way out, here is someone who will come when you call.

Every woman who walks out of that center with her life back is a rebuttal, delivered in the exact room where the insult was spoken, to everything Preston believed.