She told it like story, in a low voice, without looking at him.

I was on the list, she told me, in a voice that suggested I'd just won a car.

He told the story in an empty voice, as if it meant nothing to him.

"A good thing we did go," he told her instead in a tight voice.

Because you must, she told herself in a small, urgent voice.

"You stay put," I told him in a very firm low voice.

"All 1 need is you," she told him, with a world of promise in her voice.

"I'm meeting somebody," she told him, in a voice that would not carry beyond the two of them.

"I just want to say I'm sorry that this happened," he told the judge in a firm voice.

But he could tell it in her voice, full of loneliness and pain.