Collapsed in the street

Sorry to be late.

What kept you?

There was a woman…

Ah…

No, no. She’d fallen.

So you had to be the gallant hero…

Listen. She was lying in the gutter, she was scarcely breathing…

And of course you had to give her mouth to mouth?

Look, she was about 80 years old, couldn’t speak, sweating profusely…

Yes?

So I called for an ambulance. The police came first and sat her up, checked her for injuries, there were none, and looked in her bag and found she was miles away from home.

Did they think you had knocked her down on your bicycle?

I worried about that. But after they put her in the ambulance, the senior policeman said the signs were she’d had an attack, maybe diabetes, people fall to their knees and put their hands on the ground when that happens. And that’s just how she was lying.

Like that chap over there?

What? Another one?