One time, back when my fiancée and I were just dating at the beginning of our relationship, I went on a long tangent on how a lot of context has been lost to modern readers of Jane Austen’s books, particularly Pride and Prejudice, since at the time they were contemporary fiction and Jane Austen expected her readers to just understand stuff like why exacly did the future of the Bennett family depend on Elizabeth marrying well. Next thing I knew, my clothes were gone.