Bran returned to his place on the bench with a rueful smile.

Then he stirred and looked up at Eleanor with a rueful smile.

She examined it again, then looked at him with a rueful smile.

Pushing to his feet, he looked at Edith with a rueful smile.

I promise...' Then he shook his head and gave a rueful smile.

Beneath his moustache the man's lips curled up in a rueful smile.

Then he looked up at Chronicler, a rueful smile on his face.

She waited tensely, and then shook her head with a rueful smile.

She nodded, one corner of her mouth twisted in a rueful smile.

With a rueful smile, he nodded at a point lower on his body.

Believe me, I know. He tries a rueful smile, but she doesn't react.

For a moment Ione looked hurt, then she summoned up a rueful smile.

Hiam followed, a rueful smile hidden behind the narrow slit of his helm.

He gave his social worker a shrug and a rueful smile.

Now that was a job! She gave me a rueful smile.

Jackie looked up at me again and made a kind of rueful smile.