Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said.

He waited a moment longer, hoping I’d begin a conversation, but I was too absorbed to be responsive, so he went unwillingly home.

On the contrary, they were merely casual events in a crowded summer, and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.

Reading over what I have written so far, I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me.