"I'm sorry," said the suddenly contrite Chang.

Seeing that he cannot be roused to anger, his suddenly contrite wife hastens to petition the Duke to free him.

Selkas caught Dumarest's expression and was suddenly contrite.

He glanced at her white face, and grew suddenly contrite.

Suddenly contrite, he cast himself bodily at the angel's feet.

"I'm sorry things didn't work out for you," he said, suddenly contrite about his crack that Barney didn't deserve his paltry pension.

"They got me riled, is all," Torgar said, his tone suddenly contrite and a bit defeated.

"I am sorry," Rose said, suddenly contrite, embarrassed at the way she'd spoken to the man.

"No, never mind me," his mother said, suddenly contrite.

She dropped to her knees in the strewn herbs at her mother's side, suddenly contrite.