I should be relieved, Captain Tremayne, to hear you say that it is not." Tremayne was prompt to give him the assurance.

"No innuendo at all.

A plain statement of fact." "The innuendo I suggested lay in the application of the phrase.

Do you make it personal to myself ?" "Of course not," said Sir Terence, cutting in and speaking sharply.
"What an assumption!" "I am asking Captain Tremayne," the Count insisted, with grim firmness, notwithstanding his deferential smile to Sir Terence.
"I spoke quite generally, sir," Tremayne assured him, partly under the suasion of Sir Terence's interposition, partly out of consideration for the ladies, who were looking scared.

"Of course, if you choose to take it to yourself, sir, that is a matter for your own discretion.