Possible Clues:

• Remain undecided
• Vacillate
• Delay dealing with the criminal to avoid committing oneself
• Put down the receiver and remain neutral
• Decline to commit oneself
• Refuse to decide
• Prevaricate
• Observe two gardens, perhaps, but commit to neither?
• Turning honest about it, criminal is to avoid being committed
• Take up position between two plots - you won't be committed if you do this