“What?!”

Elaine seemed to have heard the cruelest words in the world, and she blurted out, “How can you let me out of the hospital so soon? If I’m discharged from the hospital, wouldn’t I have to go to the detention center, then?!”

The female doctor said apologetically, “I’m sorry, Madam Elaine, but I don’t know what the arrangements for you after you’re discharged are. I really don’t know anything about this. You’ll have to ask the police.”

Elaine cried and said, “Doctor, it shouldn’t be dif