"You shouldn't have come out of that yet," a brisk female voice said from behind me.

Well now," she said in a brisk voice,"we must think of the future.

"James," the brisk voice said, before her face appeared in the view screen.

But her normally brisk voice shook slightly as she turned to him.

"Message from the Mayor," he announced in a brisk voice.

He called up the stairs, his voice brisk and cool.

Tried to call you last night," called a brisk voice behind him.

Her brisk voice is harsh, broken, and short of breath.

Then a click; a brisk voice came from the cabinet.

"That was just what I needed," she said in her old brisk voice.