Outside he straightened up and demanded in a low, quick voice, "Are you hurt?"

She had a small, quick voice, almost like a child's.

"I had hoped to meet you before," Mahala said, in her quick light voice.

"Give me the Blood, my lord," she said suddenly, her voice low and quick.

Now it was her professional voice, quick and cool, the doctor's wife taking another message down.

"Thank you for walking me home," she said in a quick, low voice.

"Keep the change," came a low, quick voice with a foreign accent.

Her heart was beating, however, and in a quick, matter-of-fact voice she began.

And that quick, crisp voice cutting in, "What about the kid?"

He kept his own voice low and quick and calm.