They kept her company and chatted for a while, offering a few words of comfort before leaving around noon.
During lunch, Amelia Clarke asked Owen Moreland when she could be discharged, and Owen replied ambiguously, "When you've recovered a bit."
Amelia Clarke: "Can't I be discharged this afternoon? Other people go home right after surgery, and I've already stayed here a night."
Owen Moreland didn't say much, only responding, "Be obedient."
At two in the afternoon, Owen Moreland received a phone call that seemed to be about something important. He told Amelia he would step out of the ward.
Amelia Clarke lay in the hospital bed, her gaze inadvertently falling on the bedside table where there was a men's wristwatch—it was the one she'd bought for Owen in the past.
He had taken it off last night to sleep and had forgotten to wear it.
Thinking of how Owen always wore the watch when he was out, Amelia picked up the watch and, dialing his number on her phone, headed out after him.