"Guess you're right," Bud murmured in a disappointed voice.

A disappointed voice asked, "How do you know?

Pelorat's lips tightened for a moment and then he said in a disappointed voice, "Too bad.

She peered into his face, then said in a disappointed voice, "But then, you probably already have a job you like."

"Oh, it's not there anymore," she said in a disappointed voice.

"You don't understand at all," she said in a chiding, deeply disappointed voice.

"Everybody's looking at screens full of numbers again," she said in a disappointed voice.

'Maybe I should come back when you're not so busy,' he offered in a disappointed voice.

Then Porter spoke in a flat, disappointed voice.

"I don't know," she said, in a disappointed voice.