Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.

“The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on th…”

“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produc…”

“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your …”

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And th…”