I still cough a little, but that's all that is left of it." Then at the moment of leaving the throne to get back into his bed, he joked once more.

"It's lucky you have a strong nose and are not bothered." They laughed louder than ever.

At heart they felt joyful.

It was by way of showing their contentment without a host of phrases that they thus joked together.

One must have had to do with patients to know the pleasure one feels at seeing all their functions at work again.
When he was back in bed she gave him the two oranges and this filled him with emotion.