Why hadn't she simply agreed to go along with her mother's scheme and take whatever was offered?

If you seem to be going along with my scheme, the others're more apt to.

Ghend wouldn't have any choice but to go along with your scheme.

Lorraine, the victim's wife, goes along with the reporter's scheme.

And it was a "boil the ocean" business plan, one which required everybody on earth to go along with their stupid scheme.

She'd finally convinced me that this was the only way I could be saved, and I'd agreed to go along with her scheme.

"And you think she talked the cop into going along with her scheme."

He bullies and manipulates Rita into going along with his scheme.

"You have no idea if the rest of the world would have gone along with your scheme."

Why hadn't he seen Paisley for what she really was and refused to go along with her crazy scheme?