There was a tightening of the figure by the window and Erskine's even voice, slightly raised.

Her even voice went on, soft and persuading.

"It has closed our way to safety," replied the Hindu, in his even voice.

The even voice was continuing dispassionately: "I wanted you to know this.

She said in a quiet even voice with a trace of hardness in it, "I have my living to get."

"Of course you would," the man responded, with a note of irony in his even voice.

From behind them, Spock's even voice said, "That would be impractical."

"I came in the back way," the even voice said into the phone.

"I never spoke to President Clinton," he replied in the even voice that characterized his answers.

"I am vowed to serve as Cassiel did, your grace," he said in his even voice.