Trillian nodded patiently, tapped her fingers a couple of times and pushed the intercom switch.

Trillian nodded patiently again, counted to a sufficiently high number, and told herself that the important thing now was just to get Zaphod talking.

Again something was said on the other end of the line, and she nodded patiently.

Uno nodded patiently, and Ragan leaned against the wall; they had been through this before.

Chamberlain nodded patiently, noting that the artillery fire had slackened.

My companions nodded patiently at yet another of my silly predictions.

She gave them the whole story, and the person listened and nodded patiently and said, '15 an hour."

Johnston just nodded patiently, and smiled.

Libby nodded patiently, allowing him to continue.

Jamie was nodding patiently at each of these startling revelations, trusting that I would eventually come to some point.