Flight from Love by Peggy Gaddis

Author:Peggy Gaddis [Gaddis, Peggy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.

Chapter Eleven

On Sunday morning, Brooke walked out of the hospital beside Clark and paused to savor the fresh, crisp beauty of the morning. The mountain spring was beginning to make itself felt; a shy, hesitant spring that had climbed the mountain from the greening valley and was now touching with cool, gentle fingertips the bare limbs of the great tries, backed up by the eternal green of the huge pines and ancient spruces.

“I still can’t believe our luck,” she told him happily. “That we could both have the same day off, I mean.”

“It’s high time you were having a day off, the first you’ve had in the three weeks you’ve been here,” Clark told her as he guided her to where his car, a new but inexpensive dark coup$eA, was waiting.

“I’ve heard gossip that you haven’t had a day off in all the time you’ve been here,” she derided him lightly.

“Decent of Osborne to double up and take day duty for me, after being on night duty last night,” Clark told her happily as he settled her in the car and slipped beneath the wheel. “Of course I’ll return the service when he wants to run down to Atlanta for a week-end.”

“Does he, often?”

“Not too often, but he is engaged to a girl down there. And she has a job, too, so though she comes up occasionally for a Sunday, they don’t see much of each other at that.”

“Well, if she’s going to marry a doctor, it’s as well for her to get accustomed to the idea that his patients will see a lot more of him than she will.”

Clark was driving beyond the town, out along a winding road that climbed steeply. He shot her a swift glance.

“That sounds as if you didn’t think much of doctors as husband material,” he said.

“I’m afraid I haven’t given the subject much thought,” she admitted. “I’m afraid I don’t consider nurses such good wife material, if it comes to that.”

“I do,” said Clark with unexpected vigor. And then before she could manage an answer he went on quietly, “Some day, when you are quite ready to talk about it, I’d like to know what you were running away from when you came up here and asked for a job.”

Color burned in Brooke’s face and her eyes would not meet his.

“Running away?” she asked idiotically.

Clark’s smile was faint.

“No nurse of your capabilities and qualities would have to take a job in a place like this for any other reason,” he pointed out.

She was very still for a moment, and then she tilted her chin slightly.

“I’d rather not talk about it now,” she answered frankly.

“Of course not,” said Clark, and smiled warmly at her. “But when you’re ready—we are friends, aren’t we?”

“You know we are—the very best!”

“Good! Then I’ll be standing by!”

“Where are we going?” she changed the subject so abruptly that he looked momentarily taken aback.

“I want to prove to you that all mountain marriages are not like the Tatums. I want you

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