if your child comes to you in the middle of the night saying, “Daddy, there’s an elephant in the hall,” you might escort him back to bed toting an imaginary gun; if he had said, “Daddy, there’s a man in the hall,” you would probably be inclined to carry a real one.
This is when the wife's lover is trying to escape from the closet he was hiding in when Sam came home a little too early.
