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"Then...?" Tenebræ replying to her Uncle's Twinkling with the usual play of Eye-lashes.

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Line 34 Vulgarized:
"Then how would you phrase it?" flirted his niece flirtily back at her flirting Uncle and making me wonder if my naivete caused me to miss the real meaning of that earlier phrase "Secret Relations." 

Subtext:
Cherrycoke is not telling his story free from critics or editors. His audience has ample opportunity to interrupt or question him or accuse him of untruths as he tells the story. And I suspect he'll have to change details on the fly, or make up new excuses if called out on brazen descriptions of events. Here, the first (unless the Twins were first?) critic of his story is Tenebrae who seemingly has the power to cajole more out of her uncle than maybe he was first willing to give. He's putty in her hands, it seems.