Figuratively speaking, that is.
It wasn't until the girl's father spoke that she began to cry.
I did not mention morphine to the nurse, but I knew that she was wise, and I saw by the way she looked at me as I spoke that she knew that I knew what morphine would do.
Granted, Koenig says she tried to get her family to speak, that she has expended more effort on this than on anything in her reporting career.
But Ms. Hoffman told the 9th to 12th graders gathered in the gymnasium to hear her speak that she was not such a distinguished student.
The columnist Mary Riddell, who writes for the Daily Telegraph, says that she wishes never to be so close to anyone to whom she speaks that she feels constrained to 'write anything that you don't wholly believe'.
In a strange land, where a language was spoken that she didn't understand, across an ocean from the people and places she knew, she would buy flour and milk and eggs, and she would make noodles.
"The activities director was so surprised to hear the woman speak that she began to cry.
"I was hoping maybe we would have the chance to speak — that she would know I was here.
