"He doesn't want me," she managed to say, in a broken half whisper.

Sam asked in a half whisper, as if he were in church.

"Pray tell us the story," says Watt in a half whisper.

"They come again," he said in a half whisper.

"Yes, it's still watching from over there," he added in a half whisper.

"Shut up or I'll kill you," the man said in a raspy half whisper.

And then came the voice again, in a seductive half whisper, the words touched with sadness.

He spoke in a half whisper, urgent now himself.

"Let him rest in peace," she said, the words a half whisper.

She spoke in a frightened half whisper, as though it might be listening.

"It would be a good thing," he half whispered aloud, "if we could land near that river."

"We must go back-" he half whispered, already knowing that they could not.

"If you could just tell me what is behind all this," he half whispered.

She half whispered: "Don't talk to me of it."

'You are a barbarian,' he half whispered in English.

He half whispered, "It's a good thing we didn't let him go to see that psychiatrist.

Speaking to the concrete wall, he half whispered back, "I can't."

He half whispered it and saw her eyes widen as he said it.

"Let's see if I can catch Dolmar with his hands in the cash box," he half whispered.

"Carrie," he half whispered, "can I have a few words with you?"