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immediate [I'mJdjqt], nurse [nWs], encourage [In'kArIG]

“Exceptions are sometimes made for immediate family,” she said, and gave me a smile. “You just hang on a second. Let me see what I can do.” She picked up the phone and punched a couple of buttons, no doubt calling the nurse's station on the fourth floor, and I could see the course of the next two minutes as if I really did have second sight. Yvonne the Information Lady would ask if the son of Jean Parker in 487 could come up for a minute or two — just long enough to give his mother a kiss and an encouraging word — and the nurse would say oh God, Mrs. Parker died not fifteen minutes ago, we just sent her down to the morgue, we haven't had a chance to update the computer, this is so terrible.

The woman at the desk said (женщина за стойкой сказала), “Muriel? It's Yvonne (Мюриэл? Это Ивон). I have a young man here down here at the desk (у меня здесь молодой человек, здесь внизу, у стойки), his name is (его зовут) —” She looked at me (она посмотрела на меня), eyebrows raised (брови /вопросительно/ поднялись), and I gave her my name (и я назвал свое имя). “— Alan Parker. His mother is Jean Parker, in 487 (его мать Джин Паркер, в 487-й)? He wonders if he could just (он интересуется/спрашивает, может ли он/нельзя ли ему просто)…”