Question

She came to the room with some messages in her hand and said: "I found this while I was arranging the desk drawers."

Answer 1

Answer:

She came into the room with some messages in her hand and she said that she found them while she was arranging the desk drawers.

Explanation:

Reported speech is speech without direct quotations. All we have to do is rewrite the sentence in a way that still makes sense without the direct speech.