The internal question very abruptly answered itself.

"No," she answered abruptly, staring at him with her hand still over her heart.

He answered abruptly, not what Star said but what she may have implied: "You couldn't hire me to look!"

I was just about to hang up when someone answered abruptly on the other end.

'I could be dead before tomorrow,' Uncle Walter answered abruptly, taking his hand away from his eyes.

Christopher answered abruptly, as if scolding Decker.

"Nothing is," Maggie answered abruptly.

A librarian,' he answered abruptly.

She answered abruptly and then came back on the line.

She thought him most unreasonable when he answered abruptly, "You might have thought of that sooner."