(..) ...said trained at Barts - so Army doctor, obvious. Your face is tanned... but no tan above the wrists. You've been abroad, but not sunbathing. Your limp's bad when you walk, but you don't ask for a chair when you stand, like you've forgotten about it, so it's at least partly psychosomatic. (..)

(..) Stamford, Mike Stamford. We were at Barts together. Yes, sorry, yes, Mike, hello. - Yeah, I know, I got fat. - No, no. I heard you were abroad somewhere getting shot at. What happened? I got shot. Are you still at Barts, then? Teaching now, yeah. Bright young things like we used to be. (..)