The judge could accept her explanation, or the judge could reject her explanation, find her in civil contempt and order her to be held in jail until she either produces the encryption key or the issue becomes moot (i.e., the case in which he key is needed is resolved). It is unfortun...
his new contempt for her salt102 shamelessness, which he little knew reduced her to listening night after night at his bedchamber door for a soft tumultuary gasp, then for a snore, so that by obtaining his seeded linen handkerchief she might apply it deep to herself; as naught either came...