Takagi's lips parted encouragingly, but, before he could speak up, an older, Ukrainian-accented voice interrupted from one of the seats in front of Roberta.

A querulous, sour old-man voice, interrupted in its coughing: "He is, is he?

I only know, that before I get to the end of it, I always find my voice interrupted by tenderness, and my eyes suffused with tears.

'Well, I . . .' Annie began, her voice already interrupted by laughter.

"There's no defending possible, Mister Secesh," another voice interrupted in a laconic way.

A hollow shell of his old self, Kashiwagi was meanwhile addressing Kojiju in a faltering voice sometimes interrupted by a suggestion of a laugh.

Rosie was bent on telling her all about it in a voice sodden with tears, interrupted by the occasional bellow.

"I swear they aren't hidden anywhere around here -" A growled voice interrupted with threats of torture if Hayde wouldn't admit where the paintings really were.

"Captain," a resonant voice interrupted from the back of the bridge.