I know it's very hard to write dialouge. But as a reader, dialouge is fresh and easier to read after a paragraph of description. Dialouge is hard no to make awkward. Very often it sounds forced or unnatural. But you are doing a good job of it.
Author's response
Again, thank you. I'm trying to get past the dialogue barrier that I have and I found the dialogue in this chapter was easier to write than normal.