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Two voices were speaking in the dark -- Liuba's, intimate, tentative, sensitive, with delicate intonations of private apprehension such as a woman's voice always gains in the dark -- and his, hard, quiet, distant. He spoke his words too precisely, too harshly -- the only sign of intoxication not quite passed away.
"Are your eyes open? " she asked.