Her voice had been cold and detached, using the tone the proud employ to the criminal.

He did not know that he came near using the tone one takes toward a lost child.

After a brief but embarrassing pause Porter spoke, using the tone Katherine associated with the stern but kindly rebukes of her childhood.

At times she has done it " using the tone of a schoolteacher, scolding her students or wagging her finger," Giacobbe said.

"You don't say?" I said, using the tone I used with Caroline when she prattled at me while I was reading a newspaper.