31.   First, even at the primary-school age, parents are thinking ahead to qualifications and jobs.

32.   Perhaps, he thought to himself, this was all part of a plot worked up by Dr Ali.

33.   The Open Day, Robert thought to himself, was physical evidence of how far the school had come during the year.

34.   Jesus, I thought to myself.

35.   I thought to myself that, however far they had wandered, if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate.

36.   Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing, she thought to herself.

37.   Poor Melanie, Loretta thought to herself.

38.   You had to give Anthony top marks for persistence, she thought to herself.

39.   At one of his lectures on Lawrence, Loretta recalled, thinking back to her afternoon in the Herald library.

40.   The Waldorf, Loretta thought to herself.