# Chapter 04 Unresolved-Threads Protection Audit

- PROTECTED-HELD — thread: protected relation / Odile knows truth — strongest resolution-candidate moment quoted: `"There was a third with one more person in it, which was not coming out at a diner."` — why it is not resolution: deepens withheld knowledge without naming Odile's relation.
- PROTECTED-HELD — thread: fake couple / public assumption — strongest resolution-candidate moment quoted: `"That's a real first version"` — why it is not resolution: the conflict shifts from vague assumption to remembered public story; no one learns the truth.
- PROTECTED-HELD — thread: Ruth suspicion beat 1 of 4 — strongest resolution-candidate moment quoted: `"I didn't ask what she owed"` — why it is not resolution: Ruth names the wrong pressure and stops; she keeps the second question.
- PROTECTED-HELD — thread: June's stay/leave decision — strongest resolution-candidate moment quoted: `"east toward the train"` — why it is not resolution: no decision about New York or Philadelphia is made.
- PROTECTED-HELD — thread: scarf return — strongest resolution-candidate moment quoted: `"Tuesday. That was the deal."` — why it is not resolution: the object remains with June until the next Tuesday.
- NOT-TOUCHED — thread: Winter Kitchen reread / painting arc.
- NOT-TOUCHED — thread: Philadelphia offer.

QUICK-TEST: 1 of 5 conflicts introduced in this chapter were resolved within their own scene — verdict: JOGGING. Same-scene resolved: seating logistics introduced by `"sat six, and they were eight"` resolves with the chair/booth arrangement, but it creates the side-by-side pressure. Not resolved: Mara's how-met demand becomes a public story; Ruth's suspicion deepens; Theo's Odile explanation is deferred; June's not-owing-him terms persist through separate check/cash.

Chapter verdict: THREADS-SAFE.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
