I can’t thank you enough for what you did, I really can’t.” He nodded, and then his face became very serious.
All you hear these days is that everything’s going to hell in a handcart, how everybody’s a pedophile or a crook, and it’s not true.
You forget that the world is full of ordinary decent people like yourselves,
Good Samaritans who’ll stop and help a soul in need. Just wait till the family meet you!
They’ll be over the moon, so they will.” He leaned back on his pillows, tired out from the effort of talking.
Raymond fetched me a plastic seat, then another for himself. “How are you feeling, then, Mr. Thom?” Raymond asked him.
“Did you have a good night?” “Call me Sammy, son—there’s no need to stand on ceremony.
I’m doing fine, thanks; I’ll be right as rain in no time. You and your wife here saved my life, though, no two ways about it.”
I felt Raymond shift in his chair, and I leaned forward. “Mr. Thom,” I said.
He raised his eyebrows, then waggled them at me in quite a disconcerting way.
“Sammy,” I said, correcting myself, and he nodded at me. “I’m afraid I have to clarify a couple of factual inaccuracies,” I said.
“Firstly, we did not save your life. Credit for that must go to the Ambulance Service,
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