The Birdcage
I.
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. The window was a recent discovery; she’d stumbled across it quite unexpectedly a few weeks ago on one of her lonely laps around the wing. Jospeh had been called away to greet the new hospital director and so Adelaide had taken the opportunity to explore—except it wasn’t really real exploring, in the sense that she knew every inch of the wing like the back of her hand. Six rooms, and then Joseph’s office, normally locked up tight at the very end of the corridor.
