Mackintosh's furniture falls into two distinct groups, the highly decorative and the severely formal.

Letter number two would be severely formal- abusiness-likerepetition of the request made in letter number one.

He bowed to her again, severely formal.

He invariably began conversation with her in a severely formal and respectful tone, and to-day there was melancholy in his voice.

Parker's expression was severely formal, and his tone businesslike; but he had known George for a long while, and had served his father.