Chapter 5
Having navigated the car park, Adam then pushed his way through the two sets of double doors and all but fell through the last.
A queue, now that was to be expected, but there were only two people in it. The first was already at the counter, and the other a policewoman. He had obviously attracted her attention as he stumbled through the door. She looked him up and down for a minute or two, obviously deciding he wasn’t deranged and likely to run amuck in the hospital. She spoke in the usual authoritarian manner that all policewomen seem to have.
“You look as if you’re in pain. Why don’t you sit down?”
“Yes, I am in a lot of pain, but if I sit down, I doubt I would be able to stand up again,” Adam said as he leaned on the wall for support.
At this, she turned her back, moved a
