Norman paced up and down the small waiting room of the Hospital. Without thinking he took a cigarette out of his case.
When he was about to light it, he remembered that it was much better not to smoke in such surroundings and so replaced it. He looked at his watch. He had been waiting for nearly twenty minutes.
The loud tick of the clock on the mantelpiece was the only sound to be heard except for the steady beat of his own feet. His brain asked the same question over and over again, could such an accident have been prevented?
They had spent large sums only the year before on safety devices.
Norman had personally thought that they were fool proof and yet there had been three minor mishaps in the last five months and now a major accident.
He started as the door opened and the Surgeon c
