lxzarus:

              ❝—Evidently not.
                   How do you fare, Seth?❞

                                              _{❝…How I—…How I fare ? ❞}

         _{Seth liked to think that conversations are indicative of empirical tastes–in his own little way, of course–he had techniques for picking up on inflections of tone, and sometimes, it was even your diction and cadence that determined personality traits.
      And he certainly spoke with a peculiar air of erudition, pomp, and circumstance. 
                                                         Not quite elitism.}

                                                          _{❝—….Oh ! ❞
                                                    ❝…Well I’m okay ! ❞}

                                                   _{❝How about you ? ❞}