A Beautiful Ferocity: Cullen's Celtic Cabaret - Book 2 by Jean Grainger

Author:Jean Grainger [Grainger, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GOLD HARP MEDIA
Published: 2023-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Dr de Vries was a specialist. May had read an advertisement on the back of a women’s magazine that explained discreetly what he did. She’d written for an appointment and got one by return of post, which she’d had to hide from Peter. The speed of the reply either meant Dr de Vries was very efficient or he was a total charlatan desperate to take her money.

Either way, she was going to see him. She had nobody to confide in, and she needed some answers.

Walking through the city centre, she found it subdued but not especially threatening. There was a lot of activity down the country at the moment, RIC barracks being attacked, policemen being shot, but here in Dublin, she knew from reading the newspapers that the focus was political. The republicans had managed to gain control of all the major city councils, so every day they were growing in strength.

Like Peter, May wasn’t a big fan of politics, but unlike him, she could see that keeping up to date about what was going on in Ireland was unavoidable these days, especially for a theatre company on tour. When Eamonn came down to see them, she’d quizzed him about what parts of the country they should avoid in case of violence, because everyone knew Eamonn was in the Volunteers.

Instead of being helpful, Eamonn had started talking to May about all the brave young men he knew who were prepared to lay down their lives for their country.

‘Well, I wish your brave young men would stop running around with guns and turn their hand to helping us put the tent up and down every week. That would be a lot more useful as far as I’m concerned,’ she’d said rather tartly, and Eamonn had thrown his head back and laughed and said he’d see what he could do.

Dr de Vries’s consulting rooms on Bachelors Walk beside the River Liffey had a discreet brass plaque set into the wall outside. Inside, the waiting room was reasonably well decorated and smelled hygienic, but there was nobody else sitting on the chairs and no receptionist. Surprised, she took a seat and hoped someone would come for her soon.

She was beginning to worry she had the wrong day or time when a man appeared. He looked slightly comical, a bit like a mad professor in a storybook: tall and very thin, with a halo of fair hair sticking out at odd angles around a bald pate. He wore a white coat, though, which made him seem legitimate, if a little eccentric.

‘Mrs Cullen?’ he asked, his accent slightly foreign like his name.

‘Er…yes, that’s me.’ She stood and smoothed down her dress, feeling very foolish and self-conscious.

‘Follow me, please.’

He led the way upstairs, and she climbed behind him, her heart pounding. If this man was a scoundrel, nobody knew she was here. He could murder her and nobody would even know where to look, but the thought of explaining her problem to old Dr O’Riordan who’d cared for her family all her life was so blood-curdlingly embarrassing, she couldn’t do it.

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