Aaron split an uncertain look between the two of them and clapped his hands together with forced joviality.

'What's this all about, Cygnet?' he asked with forced joviality.

'Very well, troops,' he said with forced joviality.

With the same forced joviality he had used in coercing Brice to go to bed, he sauntered over to the smiling Hade, exclaiming:

"Now," Dav said with forced joviality.

"By George," the major was saying to the King with forced joviality, "and then there was the time I was in New York.