Well, so he is.

Do you think I'd ever be engaged to an ordinary Englishman?
I'd die of ennui in a week.
Oh! yes, I would.

But you like John, really, don't you ?" "I tell you that I do," I answered, "but really, after only two days--" "Ah! that's so English! So cautious! How I hate your caution! Why can't you say at once that you haven't made up your mind about him--because that's the truth, isn't it?
I wish he would not sit there, looking at me, and not talking to the others.

He ought to talk to them, but he's afraid that they'll laugh at his Russian.

It's not very good, his Russian, is it?
I can't help laughing myself sometimes!" _Her_ English was extremely good.