It all depends.

What shall I say about you to them ?" "As little as possible." "And that's really about all I could say," with a suggestion.
But the other failed to meet the suggestion half-way.
"You might forget about my ragged linen in Paris," acridly.
"I'll omit that," good-naturedly.

"Come, be cheerful; fortune's wheel will turn, and it pulls up as well as down.

Remember that." "I must be on the ascendancy, for God knows that I am at the nadir just at present." He breathed in the sweet freshness which still clung to the morning, and settled his shoulders like a recruiting sergeant.
"How well the man has studied his English!" thought Fitzgerald.

He rarely hesitated for a word, and his idioms were always nicely adjusted.
The admiral was alone.