Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): In later life , according to his official biographer Philip Ziegler , at dinner parties Heath was " apt to relapse into morose silence or completely ignore the woman next to him and talk across her to the nearest man " ; others at the time claimed Heath was just not talkative at parties .
Output (English): In later life , according to his official biographer Philip Ziegler , Heath was " apt to relapse into morose silence or completely ignore the woman next to him and talk across her to the nearest man " .