"You'll need to do better than that," said a dry little voice on my left.

The dry voice observed that something significant had just happened.

He spoke to a person with a dry Swiss voice.

"Probably he's never met anyone quite like you before," Dave said in a dry voice.

"She has no need to tell me of this," the dry voice said.

"Actually there is," the dry voice in his mind said to him.

What had the dry voice in his mind told him?

It was some ten minutes before the dry voice spoke again.

"Do not go far and return soon," he said in his dry voice.

But when he answered, his dry voice was hard to read.