I tried to push once and met resistance.

There was no explanation that made this medical transport.

I knew that even while part of me waited for David to lift the lid and say they had made a terrible mistake.

Voices came through the partition, blurred by the engine.

“She is going to run,” Arthur said.

“She cannot with the cord,” David answered.

I could not see them.

I would later tell the detective what I had heard without pretending I saw who held what in the dark.