A Kind Man by Hill Susan

Author:Hill, Susan [Hill, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781446402276
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2011-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

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DR MCELVEY stood at the window of his study looking out at the same darkness, and thinking also of Tommy Carr, and as he did so, he heard the voice of the first physician he had worked with after qualifying, the man who had taught him more than anyone about sickness and health and the men, women and children whose lives they tended. He could hear his fine voice speaking into his own quiet room, speaking of the illnesses they all dreaded, the end they prayed not to come to and how they should be helped.

‘Remember one thing – they dinnae want to ken, Ian. Nearly all of them, you can be sure, and it’s your duty to spare them. They dinnae want to ken.’

And so he had discovered for himself. He wondered now if Tommy Carr had wanted to know or if he, like so many, had guessed for himself and yet, with a strange excess of fellow feeling, wanted to spare the doctor from understanding that. There had been a look in his eyes.

The growth had been large and growing, everything pointed to the tumour below the man’s jaw as having seeded from it and there would be others eating away what was left of his body. There was no point in knowing how many or where.

Tommy Carr.

Dr McElvey went out of his study to find his wife.

Ten minutes later, he was driving to 6 The Cottages, obeying the inner voice he had been trained to listen to. It told him when someone needed him and why.

Tommy Carr.

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