Now, drawing even a little apart, she wondered for the first time.

Who, she wondered for the first time, had taken those pictures?

He wondered the same thing himself, not for the first time.

Paul suddenly wondered for the first time not when in the world he was, but where.

Did he, she wondered, hardly for the first time, understand her?

I wondered for the first time if my eyes ever looked like that.

He also wondered, for the first time, if what they had paid her could ever have been enough.

Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river.

He wondered for the first time what people lived in them.

He began to wonder, for the first time, if the desert had defeated him.