Polly skipped to one side, intent on escaping into the sluice room, but the Professor's voice, loud and clear, stopped her.

McGruder went into the sluice room and prepared for the operation, putting on his gown and cap and fastening the mask loosely about his neck.

So Judy Brownlee automatically thinks I'm useless and I have to do all the terrible jobs, like cleaning up the sluice room and emptying the linen skips and doing tea rounds."

In addition to this, stations may also have a crew room, bunk room/living quarters, station office, kitchen area, equipment store, sluice room - cleaning equipment, clean linen store, oxygen cylinder store, and shower facilities.

A junior nurse had already retired into the sluice room in tears, it just needed someone to trip over a Balkan Beam or drop a bowl; heaven forfend that she would be the one to do it, thought Emily with unhappy memories of the French consultant who had been so scathing about her clumsiness.