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** If she had killed Paul, Gurney/Thufir/Idaho would have followed her back to Chapterhouse if necessary to make sure she was executed. It wouldn't make sense to actually poison the needle and risk accidentally killing him (even a Reverend Mother might be vulnerable to accidents, e.g. earthquake).
*** It's established in later books that it's actually pretty goddamned hard to kill a Reverend Mother by "normal" means. Not to mention the whole protection of the Emperor thing. And finally, they had a pretty good idea that Paul was a candidate for the Kwisatz Haderach, or in other words, a male ''truthsayer''. Trying to bullshit him about a poisoned needle would have risked him getting smart to it and compromising the test.
*** There's also that the Lady Jessica was an accomplice to the test, which means she already has to have thought through ahead of time what her plan will be if Paul dies (and 'throw the Reverend Mother to the wolves' could not be it, or else the Reverend Mother would have seen it -- she can read Jessica like an open book -- and simply aborted.) If necessary, Jessica would quite likely lie and say Paul was killed by an unseen assassin, or help the Reverend Mother throw a hunter-seeker down on the corpse before calling for the guards, and she's the one person above all else that Duke Leto would believe.
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