Come Dance With Me

9 Titus Smart

23 January 2003. I’ve been Elias Newman’s registrar for five years. What with his research and his writing in addition to the hospital work he’s the busiest man I know. Whenever I come into his office he’s fully engaged with one thing or another. But today he was just standing by the window, apparently lost in thought. He turned to me and said, ‘Yes?’ With some impatience, I felt.

‘Never mind,’ I said. ‘It can wait.’

‘Right,’ he said, and went back to his thoughts. Most unusual.