And to think I thought we'd simply been making small talk.

I would say she had no time for small talk.

I had no way of making small talk with such a man.

She had never been any good at small talk and saw no reason to even try now.

They made small talk for the next hour, each side feeling the other out.

I asked him after the small talk had gone by.

Another five minutes of small talk and he could get away.

But he wasn't just trying to make small talk at our first meeting.

But what good does all my small talk do him?

He too had come to the end of his small talk.