Orin and Hal on the phone
'Number 7 remains a no-miss proposal, though. Picture this. Obtain a ring. As in a wedding band. So you present yourself to the Subject as visibly married.'
Context
Orin's seduction Strategy #7 runs on a ring: wear the fidelity-circle precisely in order to break it. Hal's verdict a page later — "suborning somebody into helping you desecrate a tomb they don't know is empty" — names what's inside this particular annulus: nothing.