besides the conflict between grey and quinn-one more remark from either one , and he was seriously tempted to crack their heads together-there was the looming confrontation with siverly to be thought about , and the duchess 's cryptic warnings about twelvetrees ... and , somewhere far down underneath the more pressing concerns , an uneasy awareness that quinn 's druid cup was presumably here , and he had not quite made up his mind whether to ask about it or not .