Rita would probably dislike him for saying so, but in many ways when he thinks about her the more she reminds him of a miniature version of sorceresses from his own world! She's bossy, yells a lot, obsessed with magic to the point of all else, and is a bit of a know-it-all. Yet despite the highly negative picture he's painted of sorceresses for her back home and his big talk, Lambert's still the witcher they bossed into running their errands... so there's a lingering tendency to want to listen to her or give her more attention than he probably should.

Lambert likes Rita's spunk, stubbornness, and single-mindedness -- pretty much all her harder and objectively less ladylike qualities, really. As she has figured out by now, he doesn't have much use for standing on ceremony, and he values someone who speaks their mind as frankly and directly as she does, and has a similar pragmatic attitude to most things. Of course, he's slowly catching on that there are topics she's much more sensitive about than he is, and when he figures that out properly she's never going to hear the end of it ...

That being said, it's hard to say where he stands on respecting her ... she probably thinks she's smart and sharp, but at the same time, she's still very much a kid, and by his interpretation/reading? A very sheltered kid with limited life experience outside her bastion, at that. That's probably going to end badly for her one day -- not that Lambert's going to be the one to give her that reality check. Until then, he's happy to talk shop with her (she is such a nerd though, he'd rather talk about explosions than magic) and fight beside her if necessary.