"I've never been gone," she admitted ruefully, smiling up into his dark eyes.

On a higher level, she had the same problem, Cordelia admitted ruefully to herself.

"As if I didn't have enough to do," she admits ruefully.

Not,' he admitted ruefully, 'that I could do much about it until you arrived.

There was not such a wide range of choice, as Penny ruefully admitted to himself.

"I do want to go to college," Jim admitted ruefully.

"I don't know what got into me," she admitted ruefully.

There's been enough surprises for one day, he ruefully admitted to himself.

He ruefully admitted that five of the original trees have died in his care.