Sentence:  They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected <WSD>humour</WSD> and high spirits. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. (from the early 18th c.)