"Yes. We had another doctor as well, less inclined to philosophy but just as good in medicine. He was rather more...nervous than Combeferre." He still doesn't like thinking of his amis in the past tense. It's strange, when only less than a fortnight ago they were all together, but he puts that thought to the side for now.

"I am glad he was there, too. He was --still trying to get to his work, the last I saw of him."