Josep went into the toilets and claimed an empty cubicle.

She paused to wave two ambulance men towards an empty cubicle.

When I finally found an empty cubicle, she gave every impression of following me in.

"By this time tomorrow, I won't be totally alone anymore," she said to the empty cubicles.

And then into a bed in an empty cubicle.

The empty purple cubicles mark out a kind of museum-within-a-museum, a place where the recent past suddenly turned into history.

Some employees take empty cubicles as a sign that it is time to move on.

"Are there any empty cubicles along the passageway where you could sleep?"

He shrugged and put the envelope in the empty cubicle that had my apartment number on it.

There are still wires dangling from the ceiling, a sea of empty cubicles and no television sets.