Perez sang along to "Speechless" in an otherwise hushed room.

OF all the persons in that hushed room, only one responded with swift action.

She turned and walked out of the hushed room.

"I went in for a routine checkup at eight months," she told the hushed room.

A clatter of metal and glass rang through the hushed room.

Cynthia ushers us into the hushed room and seats us on a cream sofa.

From somewhere the hushed room picked up a click that only The Shadow's ears could have heard.

"Lord Shigeru kept records," I said, speaking carefully into the hushed room.

And then another voice spoke up from across the hushed waiting room.

The faint clicking of a keyboard sounded in the hushed room.