"No!" Matthew yells, but he is in too much pain to move and he stands no chance of catching up to Ben as he takes flight. But he knows now, for sure, than his lover is not dead, and that thought sustains him as he is descended upon by do-gooders.

"Police," he begs of them, when they offer to fetch him a cab home, or to the hospital. "H Division. Leman Street." He refuses to give any other address, until eventually his guardians give in and pack him off in a cab bound for Reid.