"Qu'il ne vous en déplaise!"
Bingo growled in a perfectly audible aside:
"And devil a doubt. What other woman would jabber French through a telephone?"
"A Frenchwoman would, possibly."
"Don't catch what you're saying. Look here, what made you shove such a whacking bouncer into the Siege Gazette?"
"Please put that into English." She underwent a quaking at the heart.
"I say, that announcement about Toby and the Mildare filly is all my eye."
"It isn't all your eye. It's first-hand, fully-authorised fact."
"Rot!"
"Paix et peu! Say rot, if it pleases you!"