"How much did papa promise you if you...."
The music boomed louder.
"... makes no difference.... If Rudyard talks to her.... Miss Taylor is easy.... Miss Hope...."
"I don't want so many stockings as all that."
"... very witty, I dare say.... If you don't care to...."
"No."
"... then I retire.... I'll tell Rudyard.... How much?"
"Sixty or seventy thousand: exactly."
"Are they urgent?"
"Debts are never urgent!"