"It was a horrible, horrible thing for me," she says, her voice dropping to a pained whisper.

Her eyes were closed, her voice a pained whisper.

"You lied to us," Janet said in a pained whisper.

"Oh, Serenity..." he said, his voice almost a pained whisper.

Then, in a pained whisper, he murmured, "Rest assured, sweet Serenity, you have pleased me quite enough already.

The voice, a pained whisper, was coarse as a rock slide.

Then, with a slight moan, she confessed in a pained whisper, "and he is so incredibly handsome."

The word was an accented whisper, pained and disappointed now.

She approached Jude again, taking her voice down to a pained whisper.

Gannon's body began to go limp, and her voice softened to a pained whisper.