'Should you object?' he asked.
'As it happens, I should, particularly.'
He bit savagely at his moustache.
'What is wrong with Rallywood?'
'He is an Englishman. Besides, I do not care to be discussed amongst the men of the Guard!'
'How like a woman you put me off! I did not discuss you with Rallywood, of course, as you very well know. I asked him the single question as to what had actually been said. I knew he would not lie to me.'
'The Guard keep their falsehoods for outsiders, I suppose?'
Unziar liked this harping upon Rallywood less and less. He moved irritably.
'But that is not all. You have admitted that you are going to marry Elmur. That also signifies—something.'
'Whatever it signifies, it does not signify that I am disloyal to Maäsau.'