"Barnes," the President repeated softly, as if he had heard nothing else.

"That's pretty much the way of it," she repeated softly.

"They never gave me anything to do," he repeated softly.

The professor softly repeated the statement that he had made before.

After sitting a moment, flooded with memory, he repeated softly.

She gave him a moment more, then repeated softly, "Is there?"

He walked up and down, softly repeating their names to himself.

'Once I had a black man as a friend,' she repeated softly.

"Leave him alone," I repeated softly, my eyes holding his.

"I care about her, too," he repeated softly, then suddenly turned away.