Already I was sorry to lose him.

So soon we begin to make a property of what pleases us.
I was shy, but not awkward.

I was flattered by the attention of this amusing, perhaps rather fascinating, young man of the world; and he plainly addressed himself with diligence to amuse and please me.

I dare say there was more effort than I fancied in bringing his talk down to my humble level, and interesting me and making me laugh about people whom I had never heard of before, than I then suspected.
Cousin Knollys meanwhile was talking to papa.

It was just the conversation that suited a man so silent as habit had made him, for her frolic fluency left him little to supply.