No! I had too many variables! Two of those variables were actually the same variable, so I revised the equation and then it all made perfect sense!” Ada was truly excited. “You seem truly excited, Lady Ada,” said Anna cautiously.

It was the time of saying "Are we absolutely sure about this?" but it was also and more so the time of thinking it very loudly and not saying it.

She fixed things that were broken, and then began fixing things that weren't broken, or broke things so they could be fixed in ways no one understood or found particularly convenient.

And there on the piss-soaked cobbles, his back to the alley and his face to the wall, lay the object of their diplomatic mission: A sleeping drunk. Colt lay out his hand in a flourish. “Mr. Billings, may I introduce to you His Imperial Majesty Joshua Norton the First, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico.

She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibly become co-conspirators.

Your mum wrote that girls can do whatever," Ada continued. "Education. Profession."Mary, now fully engaged, put down her book."My dear Ada, my mother wrote about how things ought to be, not how they are."Ada continued looking displeased, which made Mary go on. "Of course, how are things to be the way they ought, unless we make them so?

The oddly shaped man had introduced himself as a Mr. Abernathy, a wealthy friend of the family. "I'm a wealthy friend of the family," he had said. "Very rich. Friendly.

No! I had too many variables! Two of those variables were actually the same variable, so I revised the equation and then it all made perfect sense!" Ada was truly excited. "You seem truly excited, Lady Ada," said Anna cautiously.

Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.