However, he later realizes that words his lover had whispered were only lies:

These things were never to be believed if a would-be lover whispered them before the bedding - but after?

"Good to see you, lover," he whispered.

If your lover whispered something against-the Reich, you had to betray her.

"Thought you were tired, lover," she whispered over her shoulder as he slid into her from behind.

From the grass inshore I could hear my comrades snoring, or sighing in sleep; and two lovers whispering.

"Supper should be good, lover," Krysty whispered.

She saw the accused and her lover at dead of night whispering and embracing.

In front of him, the gray and mature lovers kissed and whispered and giggled, oblivious to the world.