The flutter of her skirts subsided in the distance, and my neighbor, who had half turned away to light a cigar, made no effort to reopen the conversation.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
But she realized that he would not reopen the subject.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
She made no attempt to reopen the subject with Everard, recognizing fully the futility of such a course; for she had no shadow of proof to support it.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell