They smiled back at him in a way which warmed his heart.

There were no pauses in the conversation which followed.

In times past, calls at Stornham had generally held painfully blank moments.

Lady Dunholm was as pleased as her husband.

A really charming girl was an enormous acquisition to the neighbourhood.
Westholt, his father saw, had found even more than the story of old Doby's pipe had prepared him to expect.
Country calls were not usually interesting or stimulating, and this one was.