Was she young and lovely, or was she getting on?
Did she live all by herself, and was I going to stay with her for long?
Was not Kensington--was that the name of the street ?--rather out of the world?
etc.
I was pleased with the interest he took in any particulars about myself and my relations.

People so seldom care to hear about the concerns of others.

Indeed, I have noticed, as I advance in life, such a general want of interest on the part of my acquaintance in the minutiae of my personal affairs that of late I have almost ceased to speak of them at any length.

Carr, however, who was of what I should call a truly domestic turn of character, showed such genuine pleasure in hearing about myself and my relations, that I asked him to call in London in order to make Jane's acquaintance, and accordingly gave him her address, which he took down at once in his note-book with evident satisfaction.
Our passage was long, but it proved most uneventful; and except for an occasional dance, and the theatricals before-mentioned, it would have been dull in the extreme.

The theatricals certainly were a great success, mainly owing to the splendid acting of young Carr, who became afterwards a more special object of favor even than he was before.