I've rarely met an American that I couldn't get to talk; now it's almost impossible to get Thomas to talk.

Yet he's a nice young fellow; he has a nice, open, intelligent face.' 'Oh yes, has he ?' said Helen, who was looking over the envelopes at her place.

'I hadn't noticed his face; very pink, isn't it ?' 'Yes, he has a healthy colour,' said Franklin, still meditating on Thomas's impenetrability.

'It's not that I don't perfectly understand his being uncommunicative when he's engaged in his work--it was rather tactless of me to talk to him just now, only the subject came up.

I'd been talking to Baines about the Old Age Pensions yesterday.