"Perhaps they didn't know what was coming their way," he said with a rueful smile.

The old man shook his head with a rueful smile.

Shaking his head, he turned back to the house with a rueful smile.

A rueful smile and a kind word are easy to come by.

He gave her a rueful smile, an old man on a child's face.

Ted gave him a rueful smile and left the room.

She gave me a rueful smile and shook her head.

She looked back at Jack, who returned her rueful smile.

She looked around with a rueful smile and shook her head.

He missed as a rueful smile passed across his face.