There is a difference.

I wish now that I had listened to my husband's advice." Mr.Brimsdown listened with patient immobility.

His long experience of female witnesses withheld him from any effort to hasten the flow of his companion's story.
"They were very nice and quiet--particularly Mr.Austin Turold," she went on.

"The son was more silent and reserved, but we saw very little of him--he was out so much.

But Mr.Turold did my husband good--his breeding and conversation were just what he needed to lift him out of himself.