In long dialogue passages containing no attributives, the reader may become lost and be compelled to go back and reread in order to puzzle the thing out.
You're going to hear them talking after they've set up the apartment and starting to puzzle out how exactly it will work, including whether they'll sleep there, and if so, how.
Gloria had taken a strong dislike to the man ever since the day when, returning unexpectedly from the village, she had discovered him reclining on Anthony's bed, puzzling out a newspaper.
That provoked more laughter from the bidders, and a scowl from the auctioneer, who was fingering his whip indecisively as he tried to puzzle out whether this would work to his benefit.
An Atlas Obscura piece published in 2016 says several historians have tried to puzzle out who she was, where she came from, and where she went next, but all have come up short.