"Clothes do make a difference, don't they?" she said a little nervously.
"They definitely do." Bennet replied
She could not decide whether he was just trying to be nice or he meant everything he said.
He put down his empty glass. "Shall we go in to dinner?"
She sighed with great relief when she learned that Beatrice never joined him for dinner, but as each course was placed before her and she sought a little desperately for topics of conversation, she began to feel that the presence of a third person might have made the situation easier. He answered each of her questions courteously enough, but he seemed indisposed to make small talk. After a long struggle of trying to keep up with several topics for conversation, she finally fell silent, watching his dark, withdrawn face.
