Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.
I had my portable CD player and listened to music and I guess the most important part of the hospital routine is when they bring the food around - the meal times, but I couldn't eat.
At the sight of them, three times a day, her memory would rush back to the old days, the meals of the old days, the candle-lit table and the food perfuming the air.
So everybody's doing their own thing and they hear this call and they all rush over and there's a 5 or 10 minute period where everybody's excited waiting to eat.