The little girl looked up at them gratefully, and her eyes smiled through their tears.

"I think she looks lovely," Mother said, smiling through her tears.

The girl raised her head, making an attempt to smile through her tears.

After a while she became more calm, contrived to smile through her tears.

When she finally looked at him, she was smiling through her tears.

"I just had a thought," she said, smiling through her tears.

Smiling through her tears, she explained: "For just a moment, he looked right at me."

She smiled at him through her own tears, and he continued awkwardly.

She looked up in Tom's face, and smiled through her tears.

She turned to him and smiled through her tears.