Have a try, Michael.

See if you can't be less serious, too." Michael slipped despairingly from his seat.
"If only I knew how!" he said.

"I believe my nurse never taught me to play, only to remember that I was a little gentleman.

All the same, when I am with you, or with my cousin Francis, I can manage it to a certain extent." Falbe looked at him encouragingly.
"Oh, you're getting on," he said.

"You take yourself more for granted than you used to.