While the novel mostly strives for realism by limiting the action to things Pamela could have conceivably witnessed and written about, the introduction of the Editor allows for the story to incorporate some elements that Pamela couldn’t possibly know about yet. This passage creates tension with dramatic irony, a literary technique in which the audience’s knowledge about a story surpasses that of the story’s characters. Here, while Pamela thinks she’s headed home, the audience knows that she’s actually headed to Lincolnshire.