That got me a slap-down from my boss, who obviously got some kind of security door shut in his face when he passed my innocent query along.

Kate remembered that Meg had heard gossip about the sordid club and had even broached an innocent query to Sir Charles himself.

Chlorine dreaded that seemingly innocent query, knowing that it wasn't innocent at all, it was a challenge.

But their seemingly innocent queries were often given sinister inflections.

Cristina's painfully innocent query angered Nigel.

Kami's voice rose in her disgust of his innocent query.

On the contrary, the question she saw hovering behind Miss Violet's innocent query remained at the forefront of her mind right up to the day the Brownings returned to the Casa Guidi.

Her innocent query made Erejzan, Miquit, and Utaigh chuckle with relief.

The innocent query made a white line of fury appear round Michele's mouth.

An innocent query from a reporter?