Even in that moment of shock Lucy thought how typical of Lux that succinct sentence was. "But how? What happened?"
"The pin that holds up the boom wasn't properly in. When she jumped up to it it came down on her head."
"Good heavens!" Lucy could feel that inert log crash down on her own skull; she had always hated the boom.
"Froken has just gone away with her in the ambulance to West Larborough."
"That was smart work."
"Yes. West Larborough is not far, and luckily at this hour of the morning the ambulance hadn't gone out, and once it was on the way here there was no traffic to hold it up."
"What dreadful luck for everyone. On Demonstration Day."
"Yes. We tried to keep it from the students but that was hopeless, of course. So all we can do is to minimise it."
"How bad is it, do you think?"
"No one knows. Miss Hodge has wired to her people."