st. luc sits at his desk and opens parkins' file. forsythe, about twenty-three, earthy and humorous, comes in with an armful of papers and records, which she throws in groups on to st. luc's desk.
st. luc watches as forsythe rolls her stockings down. he shuffles through hobbes's publications.
forsythe catches st. luc watching her dress and smiles. st. luc swivels back to his files.
st. luc watches forsythe, who is halfway through getting her street clothes on. he toys with the velakofsky file, which contains abdominal x-rays showing dark, blurred masses inside the abdominal cavity.
forsythe has finished dressing and is waiting for st. luc to get off the phone.
st. luc is reading a section of one of hobbes's medical papers in preparation for examining tudor later on. the section we see says: '. thus the theoretical organism we are now considering would exhibit what i choose to call "compressed evolution." this in effect means that each generation of the said organism would be better adapted to inhabit and to control the behavior of its host'