In the morning the rope is still hanging down through the hole in the floor with the same three years of polish on it at hand height.

CorvinaI can cut it. That ends the bequest and I have no idea what ends with it, because nobody has ever cut it.

MalfoidRuth Halloran is in that rope. If you cut it she is in two pieces of rope and nothing else.

There are three ways to finish a night like that and none of them is clean and one of them is honest, and it is not obvious which.