He was aware of a murmured conversation outside the door.
A murmured conversation later Teddy came again into the kitchen.
He held up his hand as the murmured conversation renewed, louder this time.
There was a buzz of murmured conversation around the room.
But most of them looked away and began murmured conversations with each other.
She vanished into the hall, and he heard a murmured conversation from the other room.
That brought a low buzz of murmured conversation from the men sitting in the darkened room.
No one voice chose to try and take the floor, but many small murmured conversations were held at once.
The murmured conversations stopped as though she had spoken, and all eyes turned to her.
Catherine Crane went across to open it and held a murmured conversation with someone.