"We'll be taking him home now, then," Mrs Ramsay declares, throwing the doctor's earlier smugness back in his face as she watches her boys, reunited.

"He is in here for his own good," the man replies, determined to be difficult. "You have thrown all of my good work out of the window. I cannot let you take him out of here. Unless any of you happen to be an immediate relation?"

Mrs Ramsay looks defeated, but Reid's eyes light up. "I'll be back," he promises the room, and leaves them be without further explanation.