Possible Clues:

• Sound of disappointment starts something in Grand Hotel
• Sign of impatience
• Express relief or sorrow
• Exhalation from retrograde Mercury does exist
• Stones "I can almost hear you ___, I can almost hear you cry"
• Long or short range of vision?
• ''Alas'' accompaniment
• Unspoken 'Alas!'
• Audibly lament
• Sound of regret as vision stops short