“This entire situation has gotten completely out of”

And then he stopped.

He stopped dead, mid-sentence, mid-stride, because something had caught up with him at last.

His eyes had traveled down from my face to the navy scrubs I was wearing, and then across to the hospital badge clipped to my chest, and he had begun, slowly, to read it, and to understand where exactly he was standing, and in whose department, and in front of whom.

Chapter 10 — The Badge