The thin and vindictive are usually without a real sense of humour.

I rather suspected young Jan Van Dieman's discomfiture.

He left, you know, just after Garret arrived," she added demurely.
Virginia raised her eyes at the complacent inference; but even curiosity seemed to have died out in her, and she only said, languidly: "You think she cares for Garret?
And you approve ?" "I think I'd approve if she did.

Does that astonish you ?" "Not very much." Virginia seemed to have lost all spirit.

She laughed rarely, nowadays.
She was paler, too, than usual--paler than was ornamental; and pallor suited her rather fragile features, too.