The apparent ‘speaking alone’ scene reveals the narrator’s undisclosed presence.

Evidence

In others, such as the lengthy discussion between Schlichtmann and his partners at the Helmsley Palace after the negotiation with Grace, I was present and taking notes. The reader might notice that a character speaks aloud from time to time when it appears that no one else is present, as Kevin Conway did at the Helmsley Palace when he said he would follow Schlichtmann. I, of course, was present, and it was to me that Conway was speaking. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 3171

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the invisible narrator — a taxonomy of the roles journalists play inside their own scenes, from fly-on-wall to uncredited interlocutor.
• STORYSTEM: Fiction engine: a story whose key emotional confessions are overheard because the narrator is standing there in the room, unremarked, the whole time.