Specifically, after the 'premature enumeration' joke, complainant recounted a story about working in a bait shop, making fishing lures, and being promoted to a 'master baiter.'

With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

[he] pull’d me up again, and then giving me two or three Kisses again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and was so overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I saw Tears stand in his Eyes.

If you can just ask questions about a person and nod sagely then they will leave thinking you are a brilliant conversationalist.