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‘You’d better lie down for a bit. I expect you’re about
done up.’
‘There’s nowhere for me to lie down, sir,’ he answered,
and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very
distressing.
‘Don’t you know anyone in the house who’ll give you a
shakedown?’
‘No, sir.’
‘They only moved in last week,’ said the midwife. ‘They
don’t know nobody yet.’
Chandler hesitated a moment awkwardly, then he went
up to the man and said:
‘I’m very sorry this has happened.’
He held out his hand and the man, with an instinctive
glance at his own to see if it was clean, shook it.
‘Thank you, sir.’
Philip shook hands with him too. Chandler told the mid-
wife to come and fetch the certificate in the morning. They
left the house and walked along together in silence.
‘It upsets one a bit at first, doesn’t it?’ said Chandler at
last.
‘A bit,’ answered Philip.
‘If you like I’ll tell the porter not to bring you any more
calls tonight.’
‘I’m off duty at eight in the morning in any case.’
‘How many cases have you had?’
‘Sixty-three.’
‘Good. You’ll get your certificate then.’
They arrived at the hospital, and the S. O. C. went in to