"I should think you would all be grateful," the monk remarked absently, more thinking out loud than any directed comment.

"Very interesting," Ivo remarked absently, wondering what he had let himself in for.

"Crombie's talent is always wrong," he remarked absently.

"They've been talking that way ever since I can re-member," Griff remarked somewhat absently, his atten-tion more on the water into which he was going.

He made an effort, and remarked absently that things seemed very unchanged at Bryngelly.

I shouldn't think you would if you could,' Dacres remarked absently; but the sea air, perhaps, enabled me to digest his thoughtlessness with a smile.

"There is nothing you can do for me just now," he remarked absently.

Garth remarked absently, "It is a neuter, not a male."