‘Will it be a “reconnaissance in force”?’ said Zarenyia, employing the index and middle fingers of each hand to scratch quotation marks into the air. ‘Your somatic punctuation dismays me, Madam Zarenyia. If you wish to emphasise speech, may I suggest speaking emphatically.’ ‘I could do that, yes, but I’m terribly tactile. Anyway, I wished to suggest some irony in the term.’
