1.   By a fortunate coincidence, a passer-by heard her cries for help.

2.   He had been drinking a lot of beer, but he says he heard cries.

3.   The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town.

4.   Fortunately, a passerby heard his cries for help.

5.   Passers-by heard his cries for help.

6.   He had not heard her cry before in this uncontrolled, hopeless way.

7.   Hearing a cry, he begins to un-

8.   They watched the dark-clad figures manoeuvre the stretcher up the stairs and heard the cries through the open door of the flat.

9.   Hearing her cry was wrong, as though the whole world had turned upside down.

10.   But it is the sense of abandonment and utter loneliness that is most powerful, in the realisation that the cry cannot be heard.