The mid-day hours with desultory talk;
From trivial themes to general argument
Passing, as accident or fancy led,
Or courtesy prescribed. While question rose
And answer flowed, the fetters of reserve
Dropping from every mind, the Solitary[800]
Resumed the manners of his happier days;
And[801] in the various conversation bore
A willing, nay,[802] at times, a forward part;
Yet with the grace of one who in the world