"Other people are usually quite tiresome, yes." She was full of the kind of pleasant surprises that were shocking in the straightforward way she simply put them forward - not at all tiresome, in other words - and here was another one. He wasn't sure why he had always been under the impression that you didn't tell people you enjoyed their company, but he had been. He took a sip of his wine, although he had probably had enough. "I would prefer it if you ignored them."
Well. He wasn't quite as good as she was at being direct, but that didn't surprise him. Frustrated, maybe.