War Emergency Hospital—September 1940 Summary

Michael asks the nurses how to get new papers and clothes since his were left behind in Dunkirk. The next day, they send a woman from the Assistance Board. She asks him a bunch of questions and the next day shows up with a temporary passport and visa. The same woman helps expedite the hospital discharge papers and leaves a set of clothes for Michael.

When Michael leaves the hospital, he paws the cufflinks and overcoat and tries to catch the bus to Saltam-on-Sea. The cab driver says the entire coast is off limits because of the invasion. When Michael wanders into a pub looking for the garage owner to hire a car, one of the men in the pub loans Michael his car, when the man finds out Michael was at Dunkirk.

Michael drives...