"She must have eaten lots of raw coffee and chalk, I'll be bound."
"Don't interrupt, I want to tell a tale, not circulate scandal."
"I am all attention."
"Sometimes she carried her bizarre ideas so far as to appear at dances in a white dress trimmed with black, and with a myrtle wreath on her head, just as the dead are wont to be arrayed for the tomb. By way of a breast-pin she used to wear a small skeleton's head carved out of mother-o'-pearl, and she boasted that her gloves had been taken out of the coffin of a deceased friend."
"Shall I be very unfeeling if I allow myself to smile?"
"Pray do nothing of the kind, or you'll be very sorry in a moment."
"Ah, ha! I know a man who fell in love with this girl."
"All the more reason to be serious."
"And subsequently that man got the better of his passion altogether."
"Do not be too sure."