action;?
[ the problem isn't so much that martha's a short track person, more that helen doesn't really know jack. if she's going to have a personal conversation, she prefers to have one with someone she's taken the time to know. which, of course, makes things a difficult circle. ]
If we have, we haven't spoken much. [ and not enough for this. ] I'll see what I can do.
[ it'll take her a few hours to work up the nerve to make it down and it's very late in the day by the time she does. she half hopes no one's there, that martha's left early, and she glances around the clinic as she steps inside, as though she expects to be ambushed as soon as she appears. ]