Mrs. Cesar nodded absent-mindedly, then asked if he had heard that her husband was arrested.

The Secretary of State nodded absent-mindedly.

Libby nodded absent-mindedly, already starting to revise the ship's trajectory.

Christos nodded absent-mindedly.

She remembered the faces of the examiners, so pleasantly composed; one man nodding absent-mindedly to the pulse of the test arias and lieder.

Cranston nodded absent-mindedly.

Horn nodded absent-mindedly at them.

He nodded absent-mindedly, dismissing the guard who left, rattling his rifle butt on the metal strips nailed across the floor of the passage.

Enoch nodded absent-mindedly.

Swami and Partap nodded absent-mindedly and Leela came out to do the honours.