She was so fantastic when she returned from her one week sick leave, our secretary. I heard her getting coughing fits the whole day, almost never more than about two minutes between each. Each one started with a sequence of hacks, then she coughed between five and fifteen times in sequence with deep inhales between each. Sometimes, a coughing fit could end with an extremely sharp sound from her chest, sometimes it ended with her coughing so deeply so it sounded like a lung came up. Every now and then, I could hear from the sound that she was covering her mouth with both her hands, and after a while I had to find some reason to go into her office.

- Hi, Helen, I said, do you have any clue aabout where these bills are from?
- Hmm, she said looking puzzled at them beffore putting them down.
- No... I don't thi... The tall brunette sttarted to cough again and while inhaling she put her hand over her mouth and I watched her mouth while she inhaled. She coughed four times before it stopped.
- No, sorry, no idea, she said.
- Hmm, it can't be from the McFees then, I tried.
She shook her head and inhaled deeply at the same time. She then put both her hands up over her sexy nose and started to cough. Just as I left her room, she put one hand over her mouth (still coughing), took her pack of cigarettes and picked a cigarette. Her coughing fit ended with her almost bending her body 90 degrees forward, and she really sounded like she was turning inside-out this time.
- Mmm, nothing's better than a cigarette whhen coughing, she smiled and lit the cigarette. She filled her mouth with smoke and inhaled it. She must have kept it for at least five seconds before she spoke.
- Don't you want to sit down for a while?, she said, and I sat. We had a nice chat while she was smoking, and she did a lot of mixed exhales but she never coughed.
Just two or three minutes later, she got a coughing fit that seemed to go on forever. She just coughed harder and harder and just as she was in the hardest phase, she came into my office, coughing in her hand and put some papers on my desk. She was about to leave again, but I made her sit down and put my arm around her back and massaged it a little. Finally, she made a sound like she was choking and it stopped.