'He has water for only two days,' Ramage repeated patiently.

He put up a finger and repeated patiently, "Wait."

I told him the truth," Charles repeated patiently, "in terms by which he could understand it.

"We want to go with you," he repeated patiently.

When the fish tried to pull away, the old man patiently repeated the process.

"Warn you," he repeated patiently, as if to a foolish child.

"We'll take it all," Rodriguez repeated patiently, putting on a plastic smile.

"You may call me Graves," the dark-suited man repeated patiently.

"To go back to Chicago with your mother and father," Louis repeated patiently.

"Just bring me to your queen," I kept on patiently repeating.