She is a most trying witness--the most trying witness that ever kissed the Book, I am sure.

There is no keeping up with her erratic testimony.

As soon as you have got her share of the authorship nailed where you half hope and half believe it will stay and cannot be joggled loose any more, she joggles it loose again--or seems to; you cannot be sure, for her habit of dealing in meaningless metaphors instead of in plain, straightforward statistics, makes it nearly always impossible to tell just what it is she is trying to say.

She was definite when she claimed both the language and the ideas of the book.

That seemed to settle the matter.
It seemed to distribute the percentages of credit with precision between the collaborators: ninety-two per cent.