A "type" of intellectual response is identified, much as a detective might explain an otherwise esoteric sort of criminal behavior. A list is drawn up of suspects, then the detective explains "the one thing they always overlook." Having set the stage, all the characters are summoned to a meeting in the drawing room. Then, the fatal flaw in the criminal's approach is exposed, and an arrest is made. A few wise reflections on the vagaries of mankind close the scene.

XREF: Parallels the classical structure of deductive argumentation — thesis, evidence, climax, resolution — recast as a whodunit arc.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 817