It is easy to fall prey to the naturalistic fallacy, which suggests that because the companies are successful, they must also be right.

I trepidated that evening upon entering their apartment; his wife, we were told, was from that other world, and no one briefed us as to how she would show.

A small copper-plate representation of Frost Fair […] Among the activities shown are Letterpress Printing, Copperplate Printing, a Sheep to be roasted, Ballad Singers, Swinging (in boat-shaped swings called the 'high Flyer'), playing at Skittles, […]

There's a silly young fool; but perhaps it's not entirely his fault. The last six months of the war played the devil with many an unformed character.