Ah. A common theme for our day's conversation, it seems.
[She takes a slim sip from her cup, then announces (quite decided)—]
No, you are right but all the same I think I shall not ask the Baroness. I believe I have elected that I wish to be a very straight forward sort of person who says as she means and asks whatever questions she likes directly of the person in question or not at all. So perhaps I will inquire with De Fo—Valentine himself.
Not that there is anything wrong with the other way of things, of course, [she adds with a swift glance to her friend, the heroic gossip who even now is evidently trapped between two conflicted parties.] Only that I believe I lack the necessary subtlety.
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[She takes a slim sip from her cup, then announces (quite decided)—]
No, you are right but all the same I think I shall not ask the Baroness. I believe I have elected that I wish to be a very straight forward sort of person who says as she means and asks whatever questions she likes directly of the person in question or not at all. So perhaps I will inquire with De Fo—Valentine himself.
Not that there is anything wrong with the other way of things, of course, [she adds with a swift glance to her friend, the heroic gossip who even now is evidently trapped between two conflicted parties.] Only that I believe I lack the necessary subtlety.