He replies in a familiar tone, as if talking to a child.

A beat passed before he replied, in a slightly altered tone.

"Surely he can't have read our mind," she replied in the same tone.

"The spirit does it," he replied in the tone of someone about to lose his patience.

"Just got off the telephone with them," the man replied in a clipped military tone.

He got away," Tom replied in a worried tone of voice.

"I'd really rather not say," he replied in a slightly embarrassed tone.

"That's true," he replied in the tone of a one who has made an unexpected discovery.

Avery bit back the urge to reply in the same tone.

"I eat now and then," she replied in a mild tone.