I say "rather silly." I had many a time qualified the adjective much more forcibly.

I took her to have the intellectual endowment of a hen.

But then she flashed out suddenly before me an elderly Jeanne d'Arc.

That to me Leonard Boyce was suspect did not enter at all into the question.

To her--and that was all that mattered--he was Sir Galahad, Lancelot, King Arthur, Bayard, St.
George, Hector, Lysander, Miltiades, all rolled into one.