"God help us, it can't be true," his father muttered.

"Well then for Christ's sake fix him," the father muttered.

'When the priest has finished,' the boy's father muttered, looking very embarrassed.

His father muttered something about a compressor, a word Jamie barely recognized.

When Dennis had finished, his father muttered four words in an undertone.

I was sort of hoping that they'd get lost, or something,' father muttered.

"I used to be able to do that," somebody's father muttered.

"That'll have to be seen to," her father muttered absently; but she had wondered how many weeks would pass before he got round to it.

Her father muttered something and she moved more quickly into the room.