I expected to hear back from them but I never heard a 'whisper'. [=I never heard from them again]
“I've had more than I can stand,” she complained in a 'stage whisper'.
I couldn't hear what they were saying because they were 'whispering'.
(..) You don't seem like an old person. Like my grandma. -I'm not. -Are you sick? Well, I heard momma and Tizzy whisper and they said I was gonna die soon. But maybe not. You're odd. You're different than (..)2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button