Webb (196l a) thought the aulacopod condition better adapted to burrowing in soil and the holopod condition, with less pronounced grooves, more dry-adapted.

Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.

So then we tried to pinpoint it and improve it. It is the very selfsame thing, sir, we are doing now, but our superintendent is having us in now for meetings, and has in the last few days, to study results and to see where we are failing.

In either case, the characters must manage as best they can to work forward from this understanding, perhaps to discuss the details of some agreement, perhaps to prepare for hostilities, perhaps to cope with a gradient by bolstering a flimsy justification. There are clearly many possibilities. One is that the exchanges succeed in building a 'supercharacter'; that is a stable coalition between previously independent parties, genuinely sharing a position and being so sure of their relationship that they have no need to consider its failure.