Crossword-Solution: CONVERSABILITY 14 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 24

There were small shops in the Bootham, thread-and-needle stores, newspaper stores, and provision stores mainly, which I affected, and there was one united florist’s and fruiterer’s which I particularly liked because of the conversability of the proprietor.

Hermione Heriot, tactful, charming, twenty-five, was equally ready to hand bread and butter, or, sitting quietly, to perform the greater service--that of presenting the fresh-coloured, discreetly-smiling vision called 'the typical English girl.' Miss Heriot fulfilled to a nicety the requirements of those who are sensibly reassured by the spectacle of careful conventionality allied to feminine charm--a pleasant conversability that may be trusted to soothe and counted on never to startle.

The last of all the things her stillness said to me was that I could judge from so poor a show what had become of her conversability.