If he didn't want conversation then so be it, but he had to eat.
People want conversation, and the pub landlord becomes a central character in their lives.
But if this woman wanted conversation she was in no kind of a hurry to get it started.
He would get the written reports; he did not want conversation.
She obviously did not want conversation, but Eliot wasn't ready to give up.
How many people actually wanted conversation along with their music?
After breakfast, the young officer in No. 402 gave the sign that he wanted conversation.
Tom evidently didn't want conversation either, so both were silent.