News, politics, censure, family management, or town-talk, she always diverted to something else; but these indeed seldom happened, for she chose her company better: and therefore many, who mistook her and themselves, having solicited her acquaintance, and finding
disappointed, after a few visits dropped off; and she was never known to enquire into the reason, or ask what was become of them.
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella
