31.   We are on the edge of a long silence.

32.   Now Summerchild has mentioned it, I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie.

33.   There was such a long silence that he looked up from his plate.

34.   There was a long silence and then she heard a shuffling sound.

35.   Aunt Alicia has changed her will, she said flatly, breaking the long silence between them.

36.   As the long silence lengthened between them Laura desperately tried to find some adequate words to express her disgust at his actions.

37.   In the long silence that stretched between them she could almost hear her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer in her chest.

38.   There was a long silence in which Steve weighed up the situation before speaking.