She was subtly perturbed by it, and more than once, though she knew not why, it disrupted her train of thought with its delicious intrusion and compelled her to grope for the remainder of ideas partly uttered.

Speech was always easy with her, and these interruptions would have puzzled her had she not decided that it was because he was a remarkable type.

She was very sensitive to impressions, and it was not strange, after all, that this aura of a traveller from another world should so affect her.
The problem in the background of her consciousness was how to help him, and she turned the conversation in that direction; but it was Martin who came to the point first.
"I wonder if I can get some advice from you," he began, and received an acquiescence of willingness that made his heart bound.

"You remember the other time I was here I said I couldn't talk about books an' things because I didn't know how?
Well, I've ben doin' a lot of thinkin' ever since.

I've ben to the library a whole lot, but most of the books I've tackled have ben over my head.