The Uninvited

parents’ physical decline, or later, whenMrs Helena Whybray was dying and Iaccompanied the professor to help him‘keep a grip’. This is an environment inwhich one can imagine people gettingwell at speed, where broken bodies arerepaired and serviced by high-qualitymachines. At Reception I’m told thatJonas Svensson has been placed on thepsychiatric ward where he is still beingassessed. If he is deemed to be a danger tohimself and others he will be moved toanother unit. If not, he’ll be allowed home.Svensson has a room to himself, which Iam directed to by a black male nurse withtribal markings on his cheeks. There’s awoman sitting outside it, angled oddly ona chair, like a perched ozuru. Annika