In truth, he had heard very little about him, one way or another, accepting him as a figure often to be found in the background at his aunt's house, and inevitably, though Inexplicably, engaged to his cousin.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Presently he saw that the secretary was producing a fresh file of papers, and at the same moment, quite Inexplicably, his attention wandered.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
But he had something on his mind, for when Sally asked him if Major Roper had got home safe last night, his cheerfulness clouded over, and he said first, "Couldn't say, missis;" and then, "He's been got home, you may place your dependence on that;" adding, Inexplicably to Sally, "He won't care about this weather; it won't be no odds!"
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan