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it reached the top floor. Sam turned around and stepped out onto the plush royal blue carpet. This was the world of senior management. Perched at the highest level of the hospital it seemed far removed from the activities below – the smells, the shouts of patients, the non-stop activity. Here, money ruled, or at least that’s how it felt. It wasn’t an environment in which Sam was at all comfortable. Sam strode down the corridor, wondering whether his summoning really was about last night, as he’d assumed. He reached his destination, knocking firmly on the oak door and taking a step back.
    ‘Come in,’ Carla Conway, the Chief Executive of St. Thomas’s requested from inside.
    Sam counted out three seconds before pushing at the door. To his surprise, the board table was empty. Carla stood at the window on the opposite side of the room, looking out across the London skyline towards Westminster. She turned around and smiled. Dressed in a figure-hugging black suit, with her jet black hair pulled tight back in a bun, Carla Conway cut an impressive and imposing figure. She had a reputation for being a tough operator, but Sam knew from first-hand experience that she was also a fair person. Fifty years old, Carla had been at the hospital for three years, following a career in the financial sector, including most recently an executive director of the London offices of UGT, the American investment bank. The appointment of someone from the City had caused a stir, especially among the senior clinicians, who feared that a CEO without any public sector background would think only of money and nothing of patient care. But their fears had been largely unfounded. Carla had in fact been a champion of patients’ rights, a legacy of her own family experience in which two of her three sisters had died from a genetic form of breast cancer. As she had said in her opening statement, she wanted to make a difference after years of just making money.
    ‘Nice to see you, Sam.’
    ‘Carla,’ Sam replied. ‘You sent for me?’
    She nodded, beckoning him over with her eyes. Sam moved up towards the window and looked out at the Thames. A tourist cruiser passed by, sharing the water with several other boats, including a small coastguard dingy. The blue light on the back flashed as it skimmed across the tops of the waves like a polished stone.
    ‘I wanted to congratulate you about yesterday,’ she said. ‘What you did was an amazing thing.’
    ‘Thanks,’ Sam replied, thinking back to the whereabouts of Alison. There had still been no word from the police. ‘I did what anyone else would have done in the situation.’
    Carla raised a disbelieving eyebrow. ‘I don’t think so, Sam. Not everyone would have risked their life the way you did.’
    Sam shrugged, not wanting to dwell on the event.
    ‘How are you? That’s a nasty looking bruise.’
    ‘I’m fine,’ he replied. ‘A little bit sore, but I was really lucky.’
    Carla nodded. ‘You’re a hero, Sam.’
    ‘Well, I wouldn’t say that,’ he said. ‘I was just in the right place at the right time.’
    ‘Like on board the plane last year?’ Carla smiled. ‘You’re making a habit of being in the right place at the right time.’
    ‘That was different,’ Sam replied.
    ‘Different circumstances,’ Carla agreed, ‘but it still demonstrated something special Sam. It’s something that people wanted to hear about. People should hear about last night, too.’
    ‘The story is in today’s papers,’ Sam stated. ‘People already know about what happened.’
    ‘I’ve seen them.’
    ‘So that’s okay,’ Sam added. ‘People know.’
    ‘The basic story is there, Sam, but not the details. You aren’t even mentioned by name in the any of the articles, unless I’ve missed it?’
    Sam shook his head in confirmation.
    Carla looked off towards the city. ‘Then I think that more does need to be done, Sam. The general public will want to know more about the human story behind