Surely, she thought drearily, if a man loved a girl, even only a little, he trusted her too?

The relationship hadn't changed one iota, she thought drearily.

I won't last long in this rain , she thought drearily.

He needn't have bothered, I thought drearily, as my bicycle bumped off the track and turned into the side road.

An early riser, I thought drearily, impatient to get at the victim.

Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.

Somebody should have put a stop to it, she thought drearily.

Well, she thought drearily, if he did have a drinking problem, it's certainly cured now, isn't it?

I'm popular again, he thought drearily, but it doesn't matter.

Which leaves us just where we started, he thought drearily as he turned and went.