After some time, Kate returned followed by Dr. Wells.

Tristan had looked after his patient from the bike accident, gone home to finally change out of his wet clothes, gone to find Tobias to argue with him, and returned home at last to finally have some time to himself... or so he had hoped. He had just sat down to his dinner when there came a frantic knocking at his door.

He didn't complain. Not really. He desperately needed the work.

He knelt down beside the woman and what he believed at a first glance to be her daughter. But then he recognized her. This was Alice's sister, the poor child who had fallen into the harbour earlier today and witnessed the same brutality he had. He grimaced, not at the girl, but at the memory she provoked. He looked at the older woman. "What happened?" Then he turned back to the girl. "Does it hurt anywhere, child?"