If people dine together at the same house, it may of course happen that they shall sit next to each other.

And if people sit next to each other at dinner, it is expected that they shall talk.

Nobody could accuse Emily of flirting; but then she was a girl who under no circumstances would condescend to flirt.

But she had declared boldly to her father that she loved this man, and there she was in close conversation with him! Would it not be better for him to give up any further trouble, and let her marry the man?
She would certainly do so sooner or later.
When the ladies went upstairs that misery was over for a time, but Mr.Wharton was still not happy.

Dick came round and took his wife's chair, so that he sat between the lord and his brother.