In telling me this, the surgeon kindly and delicately added a word of warning as well.

"Usually they're not very proud of the way they get it," she added delicately.

It would resume the offensive when, he delicately added, "the approach of the Allied armies makes itself felt."

He delicately adds that investors might buy a foreign stock fund first.

She added delicately: "Is there anyone who might telephone or write to you?

"In the absence of the lady's husband," I added delicately.

The one," he added delicately, "who gave her that little bear.

But not," he added delicately, with a sideways glance, "its reason.

That is why we t -avel by night," he added delicately.

That is why we travel by night," he added delicately.