Spanish Homework conundrum

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I’m flummoxed with my Spanish homework (not asking on behalf of a child, I’m 67) - it’s driving me mad now. Next lesson is a week away. Sorry it’s a bit long but not sure what is relevant here. Here’s the scenario:

Woman walks into a seemingly prosperous doctors office at 12.45 - he has 3 secretaries taking calls/bookings/queries etc and remarks on how ordinary the room is - table with magazines for men and women and 4 corner tables each with a lamp.

Patients start to enter - all with (I think) minor complaints (headache/stomach ache broken arm) and she sits near them to listen to their conversations. They are mostly calm but fidgety and pass the time looking at their watches and talking to each other.

Meanwhile the room is filling up with more patients until it’s full.

At 1.30 the doctor appears from his room and a secretary calls their names one by one. Each one goes into the consulting room and emerges a few minutes later, books another appointment and goes home. This goes on all afternoon… until

The secretary notices this lady hasn’t been called and asks her name - she tells her - says she has no appointment and would she like to book one. She says no thanks, I’m not ill. Secretary says we close at 6 and you’ll have to leave. She says that’s ok.

The question is: what was she doing in the doctors office?

Phew, glad it’s not just me. Here’s the actual question;

1. Si Isabel no tiene una cita con el doctor y si no está enferma, ¿por qué está ella en la oficina del doctor?

Phew, glad it’s not just me. Here’s the actual question;

1. Si Isabel no tiene una cita con el doctor y si no está enferma, ¿por qué está ella en la oficina del doctor?

Haha! I did this exercise ...struggled to understand it too. My tutor told me that it's all about her having a crush on the doctor.
Btw I'm 67 too. Learning Spanish is my new hobby, totally addicted!

observing for investigative purposes.

Isabel está teniendo un sueño.

@lemoncrisp
Really? Her having a crush on the doctor?

Well done, both you and OP, on taking Spanish lessons!
I am trying to improve my French, it's not easy.

It's presumably 6 by the time the doctor has seen all those patients.

I suspect they just want you to make up a reason for her being there. So you could say she just fancied sitting down for a bit, or because it's raining outside and she wanted shelter, or she likes people-watching, or she's the doctor's mistress and she's waiting for him, or whatever.

Ni puta idea

The correct answer is: Nadie sabe, incluso ella.

She is the doctor.

The text is called La cita. "Cita" means "appointment" and also "date" in Spanish. Perhaps she's waiting for the doctor (or one of the receptionists) to finish work and they're going on a date?

That was my answer, wordsmithery! Nadie sabe, ella incluso!

Thank you @lemoncrisp I will go with your tutor’s answer. Crikey so many red herrings to navigate. Thanks all for your help x

"Nadie lo sabe, ni siquiera ella".
You're welcome.

Is it his/her wife and the secretaries don’t know her. Why would one doctor have 3 secretaries? Utter bonkers and I speak Spanish, not seeing any reasonable answer unless it’s meant to be a riddle.