Her nonsense is exalted and delicate and its source is poetry. Nor is she merely a silly girl. She has some of the uncompromising nobility of Alceste in Le Misanthrope. She recognises no authority higher than that of the feelings, by which she believes that people should be entirely governed. She supposes that all the feelings must be good and does not reckon with bad ones at all. Nor does she observe any duty that has not an emotional sanction.