He made no comment upon the sight, and Dinah was silent also.

Her gay animation that morning was wholly a minus quantity.
They went on down the hill, talking but little.

Speech in Scott's society was never a necessity.

His silences were so obviously friendly.

He had a shrewd suspicion on this occasion that the girl beside him had something to say, and he waited for it with a courteous patience, abstaining from interrupting her very evident preoccupation.
They walked between fields of snow, all glistening in the sunshine.