Whenever we touch her we touch imagination.

_Aristophanes' Apology_ is illuminated by Balaustion's eyes.

A glimpse here and there of her enables us to thread our way without too great weariness through a thorny undergrowth of modern and ancient thought mingled together on the subject of the Apology.
In _Balaustion's Adventure_ she tells her tale, and recites, as she did at Syracuse, the _Alkestis_ to her four friends.

But she does more; she comments on it, as she did not at Syracuse.

The comments are, of course, Browning's, but he means them to reveal Balaustion.