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"How fortunate they are to be under the care of one so skilled and courageous, as well as wise," said Chino, adding, seemingly sotto voce, to Lecchio, "or so it would seem". - (Players of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #128)

"I am, as you may have by now surmised, Petrucchio," said Petrucchio, "a captain of Turia, and have here," and here he indicated the women behind him, "under my protection, for which services I have taken fee, three noble ladies, each of gentle birth and high station". "They are, then, all free women?" asked Chino. "Of course!" responded Petrucchio, somewhat huffily, seemingly prepared, at the drop of an innuendo, to take umbrage, with all the fearsome consequences which that might entail for a hapless offender. "How fortunate they are to be under the care of one so skilled and courageous, as well as wise," said Chino, adding, seemingly sotto voce, to Lecchio, "or so it would seem". "What, ho!" cried Petrucchio. "What means this 'or so it would seem'?" "His hearing," said Chino to Lecchio, who was sticking his finger in his ear and shaking his head, as though to restore his sense of hearing after having been partially deafened, "is more acute than that of the prowling sleen!" Then he said to Petrucchio, "Oh, it is nothing, I suppose". "And what, good sir," demanded Petrucchio, "might be the meaning of this guarded 'I suppose'?" "Why, it, too, is nothing," said Chino, adding, "—I suppose". - (Players of Gor)