"You and my apprentice seem to be getting on well," he observed mildly.

"Couldn't say as my own cars are that good," he observed mildly.

"You're both dressed to kill, I see," he observed mildly.

"It seems a reasonable enough question," the Minister observed mildly.

"That was a warm welcome you gave me," he observed mildly.

'Which doesn't make him guilty of anything but common sense,' Black observed mildly.

"I did knock, but you didn't hear," he observed mildly.

I see you have given him his own office on the third floor,' Centaine observed mildly.

"You must go to bed, my dear," he observed mildly.

"You didn't come and share my tea," he observed mildly.