McLanahan's only reaction was to narrow his eyes, his mouth tightening.

"I dared not go to my usual shelters," he replied unhappily, his mouth tightening.

Rod glanced up at them, his mouth tightening, then back to Agatha.

She lifted her chin and saw his mouth tightening, his fingers twitching.

Handle it he did, his mouth tightening, ugly.

"You're probably right," said Dons, her mouth tightening.

He slowed even more, his mouth tightening.

She gazed down into her stein, mouth tightening, and fought the darkness, but it was hard.

"So that's why he's been no damned use to anybody since he got here," Stoner said, his mouth tightening.

"Sometimes," Sarah said, her mouth tightening, "that's not the way it goes."