There’s a panel at nine.”

“There’s a panel at nine on Thursday.

I sit on it.” He put the glasses on then.

“I would very much like to have this report in my hand before I walk into that room.”

I put the summary in my coat and stood there a moment longer.

“Twenty-two days,” I said.

“Pardon?”

“She has been in that bed twenty-two days, and I’ve been in this building for two of them.