Another bad break to cause trouble

Emmeline Pankhurst, who was the most well-known English suffragette, said, "We are here, not because we are lawbreakers; we are here in our efforts to become lawmakers."

Yesterday, we looked at the "law" for a defender who is long in trumps: Try to make declarer ruff; do not look for ruffs yourself. Does that also apply in today's deal, where South is in four hearts?

In the auction, South had no particular reason to rebid three clubs. If the opponents did compete to four spades, he planned to double. His hand did not suggest it would be necessary to go to the five-level, especially with that dangerous doubleton spade, which surely meant two immediate losers.