# Chapter 24 Opening Hook Audit - Current Text

HOOKS - first 50 words quoted: `"By the time the first boots hit the landing, June had ranked the coats coming up the stairwell by value: wet wool going near-black at the shoulders where the weather had gotten them. She had talked herself out of arranging the coffee cups twice."`

Criterion - immediate situation: PASS. The first sentence places the showcase arrivals and June's painter-eye without explaining the premise.

Criterion - pressure: PASS. `"talked herself out of arranging the coffee cups twice"` shows self-control under public exposure before the reader gets an abstract claim.

Criterion - voice: PASS. June's value-ranking and composed-cups self-check are character-specific.

Criterion - clarity: PASS. The first paragraph orients boots, stairwell, urn, radiator wall, door avoidance, and coffee cups. Strongest weak candidate: `"value"` might briefly read economic; it immediately resolves through `"near-black"` and painter-eye.

Chapter verdict: `OPENING-HOLDS`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
