Emma turned away her head, divided between tears and smiles.

Don't make me go the rest of my life not knowing the truth,' I choked between tears.

It stood between her and tears, as though they too were frozen even before they might reach the air.

The little girl did, somewhere between tears and anger.

"Of course I know," she replied, in a voice between scorn and tears.

There was something between tears and laughter in Henrietta's voice as she went on.

The line between laughter and tears was always paper-thin in Russia.

"I want justice," she said, torn between anger and tears.

She smiled up to me, a little one, wavering between joy and tears.

When they reached the recruit lines, she was poised between laughter and tears.