Once an event has happened in the right way, so to speak,
it is quite natural that conversation dies off.

When the dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf stay in Rivendell
(The Hobbit)
Tolkien says that "it is strange, but as a matter of facts one
makes it a short tale of fair things and glad days".

Nevertheless I shall like to talk about things such as
the architecture of the last homely house...