# Editor-Not-Satisfied-Customer Scored Check - Chapter 07

goal clarity: 9/10
  evidence: "The plan was simple. Paint a safe man" (line 22); "June saw the trap" (line 8).
  revision note: none needed.

conflict escalation: 9/10
  evidence: starts with plausible-deniability goal ("She could leave out a great deal", line 22), escalates to forbidden-roll temptation ("taking the roll out... would announce... that she carried it", line 42), then public artifact ("anyone who wanted to could walk up and check her memory against the man", line 118).
  revision note: none needed.

revelation landing: 9/10
  evidence: promised Ch05 payoff lands in "right collar point" / "left corner pulled lower" (line 40); reciprocal revelation lands in "He had the scarf right" and "feet... angled toward the door" (lines 68-70).
  revision note: none needed.

character consistency: 8/10
  evidence: June gets precise and busy under pressure (lines 30, 42, 114); Theo shows care through jars and private object custody (lines 10, 112); Odile teaches by material command (lines 14, 50, 94, 98).
  revision note: none needed. Nearest risk is Odile quotability at ceiling, logged to tics.

pacing: 8/10
  evidence: longest stretch with no external interruption is roughly lines 56-70, but it contains continuous stake-shift from mudded repair to true gap to Theo's returned portrait. The Ben look violation at lines 46-50 breaks the first painting sequence before it can become static.
  revision note: none needed.

chapter close: 9/10
  evidence: final action "She did not scratch it out. She went and ate the clementine" (line 120) closes on public evidence and accepted care, not mood.
  revision note: none needed.

prose quality: 8/10
  evidence: strongest paragraph: lines 68-72, where Theo's panel reads June's stance through visible details. Weakest surviving paragraph: line 88, dense with cohort critique inventory; Dialogue/Comedy/Figuration cleared it after repair, but it remains close to the chapter's density ceiling.
  revision note: monitor Ch08 to avoid inheriting legal-clerical register or Odile quotability.

Chapter verdict: FOUNDATION-SOUND.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
