The three laws of thresholds Weber's law states that, for a JND to be noticed, a constant ratio (relationship) exists between the intensity of a stimulus and the additional intensity required for a comparison to be made between the stimuli.

It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.

to live poorly

Apophasis, affecting to conceal; What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.]