Possible Clues:

• Depended
• Depended (on)
• Counted (on)
• Leaned (on)
• 'It all depended on not being like that, again, in truth (6)'
• Was dependent (on)
• Banked (on)
• How one depended on the one that was false once more
• One depended on this, but it was again false
• One would have depended on being prone to be in the red