With no apparent relevancy, and laying his hand on Faith's shoulder, he said:

Then, without any apparent relevancy, he asked her if Mrs. Frank Armour still wore her Indian costume.

"La, la," she said, with a whimsical quirk of the head, and no apparent relevancy:

"Her father is getting quite an old man," Norman Lloyd said, with no apparent relevancy, as if he were talking to himself.