"It was a very suggestive paper." She turned to Denham for confirmation, and he corroborated her.
"It's the ten minutes after a paper is read that proves whether it's been a success or not," he said.

"If I were you, Rodney, I should be very pleased with myself." This commendation seemed to comfort Mr.Rodney completely, and he began to bethink him of all the passages in his paper which deserved to be called "suggestive." "Did you agree at all, Denham, with what I said about Shakespeare's later use of imagery?
I'm afraid I didn't altogether make my meaning plain." Here he gathered himself together, and by means of a series of frog-like jerks, succeeded in bringing himself close to Denham.
Denham answered him with the brevity which is the result of having another sentence in the mind to be addressed to another person.

He wished to say to Katharine: "Did you remember to get that picture glazed before your aunt came to dinner ?" but, besides having to answer Rodney, he was not sure that the remark, with its assertion of intimacy, would not strike Katharine as impertinent.

She was listening to what some one in another group was saying.

Rodney, meanwhile, was talking about the Elizabethan dramatists.
He was a curious-looking man since, upon first sight, especially if he chanced to be talking with animation, he appeared, in some way, ridiculous; but, next moment, in repose, his face, with its large nose, thin cheeks and lips expressing the utmost sensibility, somehow recalled a Roman head bound with laurel, cut upon a circle of semi-transparent reddish stone.