"I'm very sorry you did that," she observed at last.
"It was a pleasure to me, and I liked the way he listened.

I could have talked a long time to such a listener; he was so quiet, so intense; he drank it all in." "What did you say about me ?" Isabel asked.
"I said you were on the whole the finest creature I know." "I'm very sorry for that.

He thinks too well of me already; he oughtn't to be encouraged." "He's dying for a little encouragement.

I see his face now, and his earnest absorbed look while I talked.

I never saw an ugly man look so handsome." "He's very simple-minded," said Isabel.