She didn't sound sorry, just amused, as if she'd uncovered a rare and unusual species of some sort.

He didn't sound sorry, except perhaps sorry she was there at all.

He did sound sorry, but not very; he might have been regretting the cold.

"So am I," she said, thinking that he did not sound sorry enough.

And he sounds really sorry about it, Rick thought.

"The bug hospital," she said, not sounding sorry at all.

She didn't sound exactly sorry, but Calliope had her doubts this woman could manage such a thing.

He didn't sound sorry, and looked secretly gratified by her trembling.

And the odd thing is, she thought, he sounds genuinely sorry.

The dark eyes surveyed her, but he did not sound inconsolably sorry.