[ A doctor. Laurence wonders briefly if the man is a surgeon, or a man of some less-useful schooling. Either way, it's never a poor thing to have the acquaintance of a doctor. He files the information away carefully, to be reflected upon at some more opportune moment. ]

Then, Doctor Watson, I am truly sorry to meet you under such distressing circumstances; I have no doubt you found yourself also inconveniently displaced, the same as I. As i can tell, it seems none of us at all are here of choice.