Premise: Yet when I sought her out for comment shortly before she concocted her sob story for the Times , Joyce told me she whipped up the Salinger submission to fulfill a contractual obligation to St. Martin's.

Hypothesis: Her sob story was simply business, to say the least.

Does the premise entail the hypothesis?

pick from the following.
-- yes.
-- it is not possible to tell.
-- no.
it is not possible to tell