Why do you think the girl with the dark glasses chose not to tell the truth about what the car thief did to her in the line? Was this the right choice? Explain your reasoning.

The doctor's wife thought to herself, They're
behaving as if they were afraid of getting to know each
other. She watched them twitching, tense, their necks
craned as if they were sniffing at something, yet curiously,
their expressions were all the same, threatening and at the
same time afraid, but the fear of one was not the fear of the
other, and this was no less true of the threats they offered