Norah, usually a silent observer, absorbed the hospital's inner workings through these snippets of conversation.

“Did you hear about the nurse who got involved with a department director during her rotation?" one nurse confided. "Someone saw them, of course. Turns out the nurse is barely twenty-one, and the director's pushing forty. Who finds a man twice her age attractive?"

Another chimed in, "Top secret, but a head nurse and an attending physician were caught getting busy in the office multiple times."