To all he replied carefully and calmly, though looking at her delightedly while he spoke.

He had a very deliberate, even way of speaking, and in certain words so broadened the a's that, almost doubled in length by this treatment, they sounded like little bleats.

His 'yes' was on two notes and became a dissyllable.
After he had answered all her questions he took up the thread himself.
He had tactfully relinquished her hand at a certain moment in her talk.
Althea well remembered his sensitiveness to any slightest mood in herself; he was wonderfully imaginative when it came to any human relation.

He did not wait for her to feel consciously that it was not quite fitting that her hand should be held for so long.
'This is a nice old place you've got, Althea,' he said, looking about.
'Homelike and welcoming.

I liked the look of it as I drove up.