After all, it was the first word she had spoken in the room the whole day.

It was as if she were speaking in the next room, but perfectly clear.

They'd spoken privately in the large room where the banquet had taken place.

"Why did you not come and speak to me in the room?"

The voices speaking in the room were much more animated.

He neither took off his hat nor spoke to the others in the room.

He will speak with her in the room where he first received you.

And was undone, he later realized, looking back, by the next words spoken in the room.

As he spoke the music in the other room cut off abruptly.

I could hear voices speaking softly in the next room.