They stood outside one of the many glass doors and peered in.
Once inside, one had to make one's way among beds and chairs, and the nature of things brought one into rather more than the usual share of late-comers' scrutiny, but nothing could abash Donovan.

He spotted at once a handsome woman in nurse's indoor staff uniform, and made for her.
She, with two others, was sitting on an empty bed, and she promptly made room for Donovan.

Graham was introduced, and a quiet girl moved up a bit for him to sit down; but there was not much room, and the girl would not talk, so that he sat uncomfortably and looked about him, listening with one ear to the fire of chaff on his right.

Donovan was irrepressible.

His laugh and voice, and the fact that he was talking to a hospital personage, attracted a certain amount of attention.