She has not said a syllable in depreciation of you.

That is to her credit.

She also admits that I must yield freely if at all, and she grants me the use of similes; but her tactics are to contest them one by one, and the admirable pretender is not as shifty as the mariner's breeze, he is not like the wandering spark in burnt paper, of which you cannot say whether it is chasing or chased: it is I who am the shifty Pole to the steadiest of magnets.

She is a princess in other things besides her superiority to Physics.

There will be wild scenes at Baden.
'My Diary of to-day is all bestowed on you.