Was ever gentlewoman So frump'd off with a fool!

Readers enter the storyworlds of novels and then follow the logic of the events that occur in them primarily by attempting to reconstruct the fictional minds of the characters in that storyworld. Otherwise, readers lose the plot.

Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone.

The foundations of our argument rest upon a model of the human being as a pro-social groupish animal.