Recovery (2012)
“Each had been accused of being unable to level. ‘Okay,’ Severance said to the big man on the way down to lunch after Group, ‘maybe we can help each other. Let’s talk after lecture this afternoon.’ They agreed on Hutch’s room, and picking up a cup of coffee at two-fifteen he went carefully down the hall and knocked on the half-open door, heard a voice, and walked in.
Hutch was standing on the near side of the bed, with a book in his hand, looking as if he had been about to go somewhere. The bed-...table had a book and a magazine on it. The bed was neat and empty. The long windowsill, where patients kept things, was empty. No clothes were visible. The top of the bureau was empty. Severance felt odd before he realized why he felt odd: the room was all right. That is to say, all wrong. It looked as if nobody lived there.
‘Hutch,’ he said involuntarily, ‘why is your room so damned neat?’ ‘What’s neat about it?’ very defensively.
‘Well, look at it.’ Hutch looked around uneasily.MoreLess
Hutch was standing on the near side of the bed, with a book in his hand, looking as if he had been about to go somewhere. The bed-...table had a book and a magazine on it. The bed was neat and empty. The long windowsill, where patients kept things, was empty. No clothes were visible. The top of the bureau was empty. Severance felt odd before he realized why he felt odd: the room was all right. That is to say, all wrong. It looked as if nobody lived there.
‘Hutch,’ he said involuntarily, ‘why is your room so damned neat?’ ‘What’s neat about it?’ very defensively.
‘Well, look at it.’ Hutch looked around uneasily.MoreLess
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