In Roald Dahl’s short story, Beware of the Dog, a pilot wakes up in a hospital in France. Prior to this, Peter Williamson, the pilot, gets shot down and hesitates asking for help because he is delirious. He then ejects from the plane going unconscious and waking up in the hospital, not remembering what had happened. A nurse then comes in and tells Peter that he is in Brighton, England and tells him how he got to the hospital. Not long after the nurse left she came back, but holding the door for the doctor. The doctor was an Army doctor with several last war ribbons. The doctor was bald and small with a cheerful face and kind eyes. After checking Peter’s pulse the doctor told him that his squadron was looking and asking for him. When the nurse
