No more Arafat hints of acceptance mumbled softly one day and denied loudly the next.

Carol softly mumbled a few words that Thelin, even with his sensitive hearing, was barely able to make out.

At the far end of the bar a television set was mumbling softly.

"Maybe Dash will come tonight," the little girl mumbled softly to herself, barely loud enough for Elizabeth to hear the words.

Around them, students mumbled softly to one another in more comfortable tongues.

"Even as the names were the same," he mumbled softly.

Chloe mumbled softly in her sleep, drawing his gaze again.

"Thought I heard someone in the hall," Savage mumbled softly.

He was mumbling softly, at times barely audible, unwilling to look at her.

"Allanon," the Valeman mumbled softly and then he was asleep.