'You have been away,' she observed matter-of-factly.

"It is very slippery in the rain," Mr. Bonanno observed matter-of-factly.

"But Alun has not gone," Bran observed matter-of-factly, "he has only gone on ahead."

"Apparently religion is a big business with the Martian League," Suuki observed matter-of-factly.

"Your speech is not Bavarian, and your clothes look American," the waiter observed matter-of-factly, as though to say the sky was blue.

When the adult Diana narrowly misses running over a squirrel with her car, Kasischke observes matter-of-factly: "That squirrel's death.

"It's mindless violence-gadgets like auto-dogs that give robots a bad name," Zane observed matter-of-factly.

'You look better,' he observed matter-of-factly.

"The composition of the orchestra is going to have to change," he observed matter-of-factly.

"There's a body in the hallway," Whitehead observed matter-of-factly.