"Damn you, Seraph!" I said under my breath, and then aloud: "Wait a bit and I'll come too."
"Hurry up then!" he answered chafing visibly at the delay.
I spoke a hurried word to the nurse, took a last look at Joyce, changed my clothes and joined him on the landing.
"Which way first?" I asked, and received the answer I might have expected.
"I don't know."