A Match For Sister Maggy by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels [NEELS, BETTY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Published: 2011-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

there was no sign of Dr. Doelsma when Maggy and Mevrouw Doelsma arrived at the hospital the following morning.

Instead they were met by a comfortable middleaged Sister, who bore them off to the X-ray department. Maggy looked around her with professional interest, oblivious of the equally interested glances she received as they walked through the corridors. The cubicle they were shown into was small and white-painted, and smelled, inevitably, of hospital. It looked exactly the same as those in her own hospital. She helped her patient to undress, and persuaded her to put on the shapeless white cotton garment, tied with tapes at the back. Dr. Doelsma had told them that an ECG would be done first, before the X-ray examination, and Maggy made her patient as comfortable as possible on the narrow couch, keeping up a calming flow of small talk meanwhile.

Mevrouw Doelsma was nervous, but Maggy knew that they wouldn’t have to wait. There were, she thought dryly, many advantages in being a relative of a hospital consultant. The ECG technician proved to be a white-overalled girl, pretty and competent. Between them she and Maggy made tight work of the tiresome straps and buckles crisscrossed over Mevrouw Doelsma’s unwilling body. Ten minutes later she was sitting up once more, asking rather querulously how much longer she had to wear the shapeless white garment.

“A wee while, yet, Mevrouw Doelsma,” said Maggy soothingly.

“I’ve your dressing gown and slippers here.” This act of thoughtfulness had quite a cheering effect as they were conducted to the consultant’s room. Maggy had expected to remain outside while Dr. Bennink examined Mevrouw Doelsma, but was bidden to stay by Dr. Bennink, who was obviously good friends with his patient. He was a short, rather stout man, with grey hair receding from a high forehead; he wore very thick glasses and peered at Maggy through them rather like an earnest little boy looking through the end of a bottle.

He beamed at her, lowered the glasses to have a better look, and then shook hands, and such was his personality that she was unaware that she towered over him by more than eight inches.

“Kijkmaar—the Scottish Sister. I know of you, naturally. I am now happy to be acquainted.” He waved her to a seat by Mevrouw Doelsma and took his own chair again.

Dr. Bennink had undoubtedly earned his reputation as a leading heart consultant. His questions were searching and he was very thorough. Maggy came in for her fair share and answered him with an un flurried accuracy which pleased him mightily. He liked the way she did everything necessary during the ensuing examination too. She appeared to read his wishes before they were voiced and acted upon them before he uttered them. After half an hour, he sat back.

“You’re as good as new, Henrietta, due doubtless to your stubbornness and this young woman. I’ll see Paul after your barium meal. With a regular check-up and sensible living, you’ll outlive the lot of us.”

His myopic eyes

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