The old woman watched from a distance, secretly pleased.

Di was secretly pleased to see him shaken up a little.

He was secretly pleased to be able to accomplish the maneuver, especially in front of an audience.

She was astonished, and secretly pleased, that he had remembered her name.

"Go along an' get your breakfast," she said roughly, though secretly pleased.

He looked over at his father, secretly pleased to be able to make an important contribution to the investi-gation.

Sharon sat next to her real mother, looking secretly pleased that Amanda was in trouble again.

"The third one down, sir," she said, secretly pleased that the general had overlooked it twice.

She just kept going, secretly pleased to have been labeled his friend.

"Okay," he said, secretly a bit pleased that she was calling on him for help.

I asked with mock innocence, secretly pleased by her reaction.

But according to a friend, she was secretly pleased by one newspaper cartoon last month.

Later in the series, it is implied that Lucas is secretly pleased by his daughter's courage and skill, even though he prefers to present the image of a strict but caring disciplinarian.

"Yeah, right," Kathy muttered, secretly pleased by his praise.

As they retraced their steps to the rotunda, Adrienne unconsciously held her head a little higher, secretly pleased by how womanly she felt.

The Shadow had a feeling that the suave, young cancer specialist was secretly pleased by Bartley's failure to block the payment of the money.

Later, after regaining my composure - and my pulse rate - I couldn't help feeling secretly pleased by this encounter.

Miles fell in beside him, secretly pleased by Bonn's implicit judgment that he might in fact be useful.

He shrugged in self-deprecation, secretly pleased by the unexpected compliment.

Nadia, disbelieving completely his disclaimer but secretly pleased by his attitude, replied: "You would say something like that, of course . . . where do we go from here?"