1.   He asked with no malice, with no thoughts of righteous indignation and she sensed this and answered his questions.

2.   Wynne-Jones asked with a smile.

3.   Werewolf asked with what he thought was an air of innocence.

4.   I ask with a grin.

5.   Ruth asked him with trepidation, half anticipating a sudden dismissal of herself from his home.

6.   A rhetorical question, but asked with deep feeling.

7.   Al-Sabah asked with a big smile.

8.   American style sticker-pricing is unheard-of here, so you go in and with much trepidation ask the price, then begin the battle of bargaining.

9.   And when he was asked about his conversations with his Yankee teammates since his surgery, he laughed again.