Possible Clues:

• Litigation task
• Answer objection in subsequent comeback
• Lawyer's argument
• Refutation of argument about singer and a novice
• Bottom in actual contention? To the contrary
• Denial is genuine, victim admitted
• Victim in complete denial
• Disproof concerning work as head servant, say
• Only later getting upset about the contradiction
• The last of a cigarette, in true denial