"He s-said ..." Okay. Dizzy. Nice to lean on him, when she was. "He s-said that ... whatever I'm doing, that ... helps with the ... breathing? He said I should ... keep doing that, and he ... he hung up."

She bit her lip, looking up at him uncertainly. "When we ... when we had that fight, the really bad one, and I ... I left, was that ... did you s-stop ..."

Right back to not caring if you breathed or not?