Come on! You can't possibly expect me to believe that.

Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.

The effect related linearly to the amount of causative agent added.

Here was a disaster—her ingenious scheme completely stultified.