The Uninvited

entirely new way.’ In addition to the reduniforms, some of them are wearingsunglasses or plastic goggles: this givesthem a jaunty look, as though they’re infancy dress. I can’t make out individualfaces. But I can see enough of them togauge a pattern. ‘We’re trying to figure outhow to get them back to normal. But wedon’t really understand what it is we’retrying to cure. It’s a very fluid anddistressing dynamic.’‘How many?’ asks Stephanie.‘Just over fifty at the moment, at thisunit. Ours is the most advanced. But thearrivals are accelerating and I know it’sbeen chaos elsewhere. The Home Officehas put in an order for eighty thousandmore uniforms. But it’s already lookinglike that won’t be enough. No one’s