George Bartlett turned gratefully to the more placid voice.

"So it would seem," said Arthur, in his placid voice.

He said in his placid voice, "We're wasting time.

It was a remote placid voice, a voice heard at night over water.

"It's a noninvasive procedure," the computer guy says in a placid, liquid voice.

"I think she may be injured," said a placid masculine voice.

There was a hint of shock in her placid voice.

He didn't comment upon her contradiction but said in a placid voice: "Well, shall we have a look at it?

'I'm going to vomit,' she said in that same placid voice, and walked away.

She stopped reluctantly, and he said in a placid voice: "You always rush away.