"I am an atheist," he said, in a stifled voice.

There was a long moment and then he said in a stifled voice, "It's gone."

"You are kind," she said in a stifled voice.

After a pause she said in a stifled voice, 'Must you go back to your room?

"Back to the soil," said Clousarr in a stifled voice.

'Love's little death,' she corrected him in a stifled voice.

'I cannot,' she uttered in a stifled voice, trying to pull away.

He turned away from her, then finally said in a stifled voice, "Oh, you reproach me, mistress.

Biting her lip, she said in a stifled voice.

"Put an end to me at once," he repeated in a stifled voice.