“Not with Toby Aylmer?”

“How likely!”

“Nor”—a hesitation and an altered tone—“nor—with—Edward Tancred?”

“If you are going to ask me ridiculous and improper questions, I shall be obliged to give up talking to you.”

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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

than, with lightning speed=> then, with lightning speed {pg 27}

though a silly and misplaced=> though silly and misplaced {pg 28}