He talked in such a way that there was no appearance of whispering, and yet the person to whom he spoke, and she only, could hear what he said.

Mrs.Grantly the while conversed constantly with Lucy's brother, who sat at Lucy's left hand.

She never lacked for subjects on which to speak to a country clergyman of the right sort, and thus Griselda was left quite uninterrupted.

But Lucy could not but observe that Griselda herself seemed to have very little to say--or at any rate to say very little.
Every now and then she did open her mouth, and some word or brace of words would fall from it.

But for the most part she seemed to be content in the fact that Lord Lufton was paying her attention.