His wife is in bed with a headache but has left him dinner, which has become cold.
It had become dark and cold; I should have brought a cloak.
Then he looked sharply into his friend's grey eyes which had suddenly become so cold.
Already the man's skin was becoming cold and soft.
The night had become cold, yet sweat streamed down his face.
All of these factors added up to the case's becoming very old and very cold.
"Without it I could feel myself becoming really cold and hypothermic," he says.
"True," he admitted, his heart becoming cold with fear again.
"Oh, yes," he said, his voice becoming so smooth and cold it was like running water over stones.
Since then, she says, some longtime neighbors have become cold and distant.