Sir D'Arcy seems to have been rather bemused by the request, for - with a hint of sarcasm - he went on to say that the pontiff "had hastened to add that the Holy See has not fixed a limit to the range of colours".
She appeared rather bemused by the whole thing - being given a hefty salary and a guaranteed green card to work for Senator Kerry, in her words, "To fight an organization she was personally convinced would never come here nor want to," given that she had just come for the much tougher zone of Syria, where Daesh really was.
Mowbray, in fact, seems rather bemused by the furore.
The Qatari government, even though it volunteered to hold the conference, seems rather bemused by it.
"We didn't know about this," admits Ashraful Haque, the city's chief engineer, who like some of his fellow residents is rather bemused by the achievement.
Party insiders, rather bemused at the attention attracted by a remark they interpreted as tongue-in-cheek, were similarly impish in pointing out that "anything is possible" if Theresa May's government continued on its disastrous road towards Brexit.
Which is why I was rather bemused to learn I was to be pitched by Pinger, a US-based service which launches in the UK today with a method for sending people voice messages.
The locals seemed rather bemused that he had chosen their small island for a visit of such significance.
It is 7.30 on a Saturday morning and the sleepy duty officer, far from being elated, sounds rather bemused.
It has all left Bransky, aged 69, rather bemused.
