War Emergency Hospital—Summer 1940 Summary

The man continues to flash the light at Michael and scream that the Germans are invading until a nurse comes in and leads him away. Michael thinks he really has altered the events of the war Fordham, the patient next to him, says the man is shell shocked. Michael urges the woman delivering papers to give him one but she says the nurses don't want him reading anything troubling.

Eventually, she starts allowing him to have papers. Michael sees that the events are unfolding the way they are supposed to so far. This causes him to wonder even more why the retrieval team hasn't come for him. He asks a nurse how many hospitals there are in Dover and the nurse tells him he isn't in Dover, but is in Orpington.

War Emergency Hospital—Summer 1940 Analysis