singsong

When feeling playful, Lady Constance liked to draw out her friend’s name in a singsong voice that started in a high pitch and dropped to a low one, and she did so now.

The conductor rang his bell up and down the aisle and called in his singsong voice, “Heathcote! Heathcote station will be next!”

Once in jail he had to “share a bath with a bloke who was in for murder,” organizing “singsongs with other prisoners” until his lawyers arranged for his release.

“When I think about things, I kind of convert them into cartoon characters,” explained Shilling in her cheerful, singsong voice.

I’d never heard a voice like hers — singsong, expressive, yet controlled.