She was speaking of my father at a childhood birthday party.

No longer able to speak of her father without weeping, she changed the subject.

But he might have been speaking of her father as well.

Little Jack often spoke of his father, whom he had not seen for so long.

How often have I heard you speak of your own father?

My heart sank that the boy could have spoken so of his father.

She never spoke of her father and tried not to think about him.

I won't speak of his father, because we don't know what it would have been like to walk in that man's shoes.

To speak of her father again would be to shame him.

"I sometimes felt that was not the way anyone should speak of his father," he said.