She said it bitterly, not with a child's defiance but with a woman's infinite regret and sense of loss.

Melisande smiled, faint and rueful, her eyes filled with infinite regret.

"No," the sorcerer said with infinite regret, "I must let you live."

He paused and then went on with infinite regret.

Then something distressing developed, not exactly pain, but faintly infinite regret that soon became other than faint.

And again, Fairlie heard the sound that was almost a sigh, a whisper of infinite regret.

With an expression of infinite regret, he shook his head and looked up.

There was silence for a moment, then a voice of infinite regret said they did not have any Savennieres in stock.

He said, with infinite regret, "Not now, my darling.

And, yet, a feeling of infinite regret came over him, as he thought of her lying at his feet sobbing like a little child.