A Sister's Life: The ups and downs of life as a 1950s Theatre Sister (Nurse Jane Grant Book 3) by Grant Jane

Author:Grant, Jane [Grant, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: heart-warming, 1950s, doctor, nurses, hospital, nostalgia, medical fiction, romance, doctors, nurse
Publisher: Corazon Books (Doctors and Nurses)
Published: 2014-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

For some weeks I had seen very little of Don. It was the busy time on the farm, and as his father spent so much time at the hospital Don had more to do. He had to help Rhona too. He had explained all this to me and I had accepted it; but it seemed to me all the same that a barrier was growing up between us.

The pressure of work in the theatre seemed to increase, Maitland was more and more exasperating, and I often flopped into bed at the end of a day, too tired to care about anything.

I began to know Teddy fairly well; we got into the habit of having coffee together, and dropped into a comfortable friendly relationship. We confided our troubles to each other, and agreed on the difficulties of combining a love life with hospital routine. He presented a brave front to the world, but when I knew him better I realized that the affair with Angela, now over, had hurt him very much.

One evening Don rang up to point out that the ball run by the Friends of Fawley Hospital was on next week. ‘Mother’s given me the tickets, provided by her dear friend Theo. Are we going?’

‘Crumbs, I’d forgotten it was so soon. I expect I can get off.’

‘You would like to go?’

‘Yes, unless you don’t want to.’

‘You’re sure you can make it? It’s no good making plans if you’re going to say at the last minute some crisis has come up and you can’t come.’

‘No, Don. If I say I can come I’ll come. I’ll let you know definitely by the weekend.’

I approached Maitland, who was unexpectedly gracious. For hospital occasions of this kind, every effort was made to release staff, and Maitland herself was going. Dudley was to be on call in case a theatre emergency came up.

I rang Don, and we arranged to meet at the Town Hall, as he would probably be late.

‘How will you get there?’ he asked.

‘Teddy will give me a lift.’

There was a silence. I could feel Don’s disapproval humming over the wires. I hurriedly said, ‘You’re bringing Rhona?’

‘Yes. It seems a damned silly business. I bet she won’t have a word to say to him.’

The climate did not seem propitious for a happy evening; however, I dressed in my new yellow evening frock and made up carefully. A spruce-looking Teddy with, for once, his forelock in its proper place, met me in the entrance hall. We got in his car and arrived at the Town Hall in the neighbouring town about nine.

The dance, stated to begin at eight, had not of course warmed up. The enormous expanse of polished floor was empty, except for two or three isolated couples dancing to a band which was playing spiritlessly, There were a number of people sitting round at the tables that lined the hall, and some more at the bar, but they all looked as if they wished they hadn’t come for another hour.

Teddy suggested dancing.

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