"Oh, yes? You work at the hospital?" Combeferre said, pleased to have found this connection. "I was studying medicine previously. Sybil has been kind enough to show me the medical establishment here." Perhaps someday, he would call the hospital his place of work as well, though that goal still seemed much further away than it ever had in Paris.

The infant's solemn expression brought a smile to Combeferre's lips. "And who do we have here?"