"Well, it's just a little something I take out on the weekends," the Captain explained modestly.

Mr. Coppola explains modestly, "I've been around the block a few times."

As one of the more ravishing ones modestly explained, "I was just born this way."

So I've acquired a taste for it,' he explained modestly.

"It helps when the guy pitching to you is throwing the ball at 90 miles an hour," Carter explained modestly.

"It is the only thing I can do," I explained modestly.

Hans Horeger modestly explained the difficulties involved in guiding a starship across the long light- years between worlds.

"I thought it would help us avoid trouble if they looked a little mean," I explained modestly.

(As he modestly explains, "My reading in mythology has been sporadic at best:") Nevertheless, it lays a sure and true foundation under his fiction.

"Oh, I'd done a bit of flying before I was called up," Brim explained modestly.