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Boris Feigin's avatar

“But Dr. Mortimer was no doubt already stopping there?”

“No, I had been staying with a friend,” said the doctor.

“There was no possible indication³ that we intended to go to this hotel.”

I never thought about this but this does seem a tad confusing, hehe:)

Dan Liebke's avatar

I’m still not entirely sure who’s speaking in each of the untagged sentences

Boris Feigin's avatar

LOL, too true. I feel like some old books liked to do this for some reason - carry the next sentence over to a new line with a new set of quotation marks even if the same person is continuing to speak (but sometimes it is actually a different person) :)