"Daphne was struck utterly speechless when Quentin asked if she could be sure that before Tad plays with them, his balls are always clean for him?!"
Egad!
I was thinking, of course, of Tad's baseballs, racquetballs, etc.
What sort of balls were
you thinking?!
Daphne would, of course, look upon the task of cleaning such balls as maid's work and beneath her, hence why she was speechless.
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You believe all that, right!!