Joelle's last walk (p. 219)
Joelle, at the end of her rope and preparing to hang from it, listening, is supported by a polished hardwood floor above both river and Bay’s edge […]
Context
Joelle introduced mid-plan, the dead idiom "end of her rope" reanimated into literal suicide machinery in the sentence's first clause — the register the whole scene will hold, suicide narrated at party-chatter pitch.