That's the obstinacy of language, so to speak.
PRINCESS.
Are not the emotions tenderly and delicately phrased!
LEANDER.
Indescribably! It is scarcely comprehensible how a feminine mind could write such a thing.
PRINCESS.
Now I might try my hand at moonlight descriptions. Don't you think so?
LEANDER.
Naturally you keep going farther all the time; you keep rising higher.