Cromarty asked curtly when the baron paused once more.

Pointing at the display screen over the science station, she asked curtly, "Who set up this tap on the Caeliar's subspace aperture?"

Sirocco asked curtly, "Emmerson and Crealey were at the back.

Stewart asked curtly as his right-hand man entered.

She reverted to her lady-of-the-manor tone and asked curtly, "What does this have to do with why you're here?"

He asked curtly, "What do you really want?"

He had only to meet their eyes 255 and ask curtly in his precise diction, and he was answered.

"About the crew, sir," he said respectfully, when Braden asked curtly what the call was about.

Captain Pick, who happened to come down the trench at this embarrassing moment, curtly asked his subaltern what he was 'playing at'.

Tiger curtly asked the girl a question.