Fate Is Remarkable by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels [Neels, Betty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408982099
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

DURING THE NEXT FEW weeks, Sarah found herself wondering about the state of her own feelings. For a few days Mrs Brown’s death had occupied her thoughts to a certain extent. She had gone to the funeral with Hugo and Dr Bright and an astonishing number of people from Phipps Street. They had been bidden to the room on the top landing afterwards, where Mrs Ives dispensed strong tea, fish-paste sandwiches and slab cake stuffed with unlikely-looking cherries, and everybody had congratulated everybody else on the success of the whole undertaking. Dr Bright had seen her astonished look and explained, ‘This is exactly what Mrs Brown would have wanted—I can think of no better memorial to her.’

She looked across the stuffy little room to where Hugo was talking to Mr Ives and the funny little man who lived on the landing below. He appeared completely at ease—she suddenly wanted to be beside him, sharing his feelings and thoughts. She turned back to Dr Bright, looking unhappy, but unaware of it, and he said briskly:

‘You’ll be along this evening, I hope, Sarah? It’s such a luxury to have you to do the bandaging and cope with the babies—you’re not sorry you started?’

She smiled. ‘No—I like it very much, and I see more of Hugo.’

She enjoyed the sessions at Rose Road. She had bought herself some white overalls which fitted her, and called Hugo ‘Doctor’ in front of the patients, and if they exchanged half a dozen words of a personal nature during the evening, that was a rarity; yet they were together and she felt as though she was sharing at least part of his life, albeit a very small part. About his practice in Harley Street she knew very little indeed, and when, one day, she had made the suggestion that she should call upon him there, he had discouraged her, though in the kindest possible way. They walked the dogs each morning, it was true, but that was only half an hour at the most, and although he had never once given her the smallest hint that he preferred to be alone, she wished he would suggest that she sat with him in his study while he read his post, just as she had done that first evening. He was the pleasantest of companions, kind and considerate, and amusing too … she wondered if it was she who had changed, and had she really been content to see so little of him when they first married? And yet they enjoyed each other’s company. They went out together frequently; she had everything she could wish for. He was generous to a fault. He had taken her down to spend a Sunday with her parents, and she hoped he would suggest a walk; but he didn’t, preferring to discuss world politics with her father. And yet he had been quite delightful on their way home, although when she had thought about it afterwards, his conversation had been quite impersonal. The

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