Possibly, as she had expected nothing, she was the more easily satisfied.

Taquisara, too, had disappointed her.
He had talked very much like any one else, and not at all as he had talked at that first meeting.

Veronica felt that she was indifferent.
Bosio's untimely death had terribly changed the face of the world for her, she thought.
A cold listlessness, unfamiliar to her nature, came over her when the two men were gone.

Before long Ghisleri appeared, and there was tea and more conversation.

He was thought to be an agreeable man, and people said that he talked well.