“Please tell my doctor I wish to see him.” “Dr. Warden will only tell you what I’ve told you,” she said, but she apparently relayed the message because he tottered in after tea. He had obviously been hauled out of a senile retirement to help with the epidemic. He told a long and pointless story about medical conditions during the Pandemic and then pronounced creakily, “In my day we kept people in hospital till they were fully recovered.”
back in my day I had to walk five miles to school uphill both ways
