It had been a childish, spiteful question coming out of the painful knowledge that Joshua didn't trust her.

So now, as they strolled, he asked her the childish question, and waited for her answer.

They let the echoes of that childish question and plea be earned off by the wind.

Who'd ever think that a grown man could ask such childish questions?

It was a childish, manipulative question, and a surprising one, coming from Koban.

"Well, do you have any more childish questions?"

Then he began to skip along the corridor to join the guards and pester them with childish questions.

"Just buying and selling," he answered quickly, in a tone that was meant to make her stop asking childish questions.

But Bane stared at him guilelessly, a child asking a childish question.

It was a childish question and an awkward one, but Irene gave it serious thought.