Lucy Gillen by Nurse Helen

Author:Nurse Helen [HR-1481] (v0.9) (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER V

It was more dull next morning when Helen awoke, and she sighed; perhaps the weather had broken at last and they would have no more sunny days. It had been remarkably lovely almost all the time she had been at Glyntarrach and she had hoped that it would last for a while yet. She stretched lazily and lay for a moment pleasantly aware that she had no need to hurry. She turned her head and looked at the clock on the bedside table. Perhaps it was time she was getting up or her patient would be getting restless and anxious for his breakfast; his incapacity had done nothing to lessen his appetite.

While she dressed the sun at last showed itself and she smiled to herself. Perhaps it would be another nice day after all; the only trouble was that she would not be able to spend it in the sunshine with Owen Neath or even be able to go out on her own. Being a lady of leisure, she decided wryly, was an all too easily acquired taste.

She looked around the room as she dressed and thought how different it seemed to her now than it had when she first saw it. The dark green walls were still dim in the morning light, for the sun did not reach this side of the house until evening, but they seemed less gloomy and she loved the feel of the tapestry bedspread under her fingers when she awoke in the mornings. It had become something familiar and she would be sorry to leave it, she knew, when the time came for her to finish at Glyntarrach.

She finished dressing and spent a long time brushing her hair, not because of any conceit she had for its undoubted beauty but because the even, regular strokes of the brush had a soothing effect and it gave her time to think, even to daydream, and she felt unusually like daydreaming today. She wandered to the window, pulling the hard bristles through her hair. From here she could see the length of the garden at the front of the house and right down the drive to the big double gates at the end. The neat gravel drive was bordered with grass and flower beds and tall trees had been closely planted to screen the house, so many of them that they were almost a small wood.

She paused briefly in her brushing for a moment, her hand still holding the brush poised above her head. She was certain that she had seen a movement among the trees and yet she could not be sure. She watched for a moment and then shrugged away the idea. Even if she had seen a movement it did not mean that there was anything untoward about it; it was probably no more than Dai Hughes returning from some expedition of his own and making his entrance in this unorthodox way to avoid detection.

She was about to turn back with a smile

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