What she said next was a thin, anguished whisper, pitched so low he could barely make out the words.

In an anguished whisper, she said, "Why have you done this?

I cannot believe this," she said passionately, then in an anguished whisper, "Leon, tell me it isn't true!

The words escaped him in an anguished whisper.

In an anguished whisper, she said, "Alfred was no soldier.

Pahl's voice came out as a tortured, anguished whisper.

"Then I cannot call Toby out," he said at last in an anguished whisper.

"It's happening again," Tachyon cried in an anguished whisper.

It was an anguished whisper, accompanied by a hard clutch on Hal's arm.

But I don't want to hurt you," she said, her voice an anguished whisper.