Possible Clues:

• Part being transported
• Really paying attention
• Carried away -- like a Christmas present will be, we hear
• 25 acrossed in having parcelled this, by the sound of it
• Absorbed and immersed in speech
• Engaged, in a way
• In reverie
• Rewritten part in "Spellbound"
• Anything but bored
• Transported for regimental training?