“I sighed, a deep and heavy sigh. If only sighs could carry all my troubles away.”

“Then came that sigh. I wish I had had a tape recorder handy every time in my life that I heard a boy sigh at the outset of urination. What a lovely sound. So much satisfaction. Girls sigh far less often before they pee, and not with the same devotion, I think. If only I had such a recording of boys' sighs. I would lie on a pillow in the sunlight of the late afternoon, sometimes listening to Chopin, sometimes Schubert, and sometimes to the sighs, seriatim, of all the boys about to pee.”

“Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.”

“I took a deep breath and sighed in awe. My proverbial penis had just gotten a serious chubby.”

“Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.”

“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?”