She had thought him insipid.
Once she remembered distinctly that while he had been talking to her, she had been watching Bianca Corleone's handsome brother, Gianforte, whom she had seen only once before, and that when her companion had asked her to agree with him, she had said 'yes,' without having the least idea of what he had been saying.

He had produced only a very slight and transparent shadow amongst the figures of her recollections.
It was a severe tax on her credulity to try and believe that he was dying for love of her.

If it were true, she thought, why had he not had the courage to make her understand it?
The fact that the offer made by his family had not been communicated to her might have been hard to explain, but she was not disturbed for want of an explanation.

She did not care for the man in the least, and there might be fifty reasons why her aunt and uncle should think him undesirable.

On the whole, she believed that Taquisara had enormously exaggerated the state of the case.