It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly. - C. J. Cherryh

Aiji-ma, your whereabouts was my own guess, unfounded, probably entirely inaccurate. One can only apologize, and urge — ”
“A guess, indeed.”
“One unfounded on any particular information.”
“A very clever guess, paidhi.

Also, a foreign accent if at least intelligible can sound quite sexy.

But once out of Tabini's immediate presence the spell was broken, the excitement ebbed, and adrenaline was shifting from second-to-second performance to the raw fear that he had a human situation on his hands and that he'd given atevi far too much information.