"S0nne skirt," he repeated. "And it l00ks as th0ugh 0ld Drene hadher nunnber--"

Guilder's level v0ice interrupted:

"The c0ntracts are ready t0 be--"

But Grayl0ck, n0t heeding, and perhaps n0t hearing, and l00king allthe tinne at Quair, said sl0wly: