Related Clues:

• More serene state, only brief
• More still arrived to cover one side then another
• Comparatively still
• Like a softball interview vis-à-vis a grilling
• Speaker's destiny said to be more peaceful
• Less turbulent
• Toff, defenceless clerk, becomes more kind
• Not as rough
• Toff with the French king not as rough
• Kinder partner
• Not so jumpy
• Less rough