Magic In Vienna by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels [NEELS, BETTY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Published: 2011-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

the doctor was sitting at his desk amidst a welter of opened tomes and closely written sheets. He got up and pulled a chair forward and waved Cordelia into it, sat down again and said nothing. Cordelia waited for a minute or so and then said mildly,

“You wanted to see me, Dr Trescombe.”

“Yes yes, I did. You are prepared to go back with Eileen and her parents when they come? I’m afraid I have no idea what arrangements they will choose to make with you, it seems to me very likely that they will ask you to stay on with them for a time. You are ready to do that?”

“Oh, yes, if they would like me to.”

He was staring at her and she found it hard to look away.

He said slowly: “You have been of very great benefit to Eileen she’s a dear child, but spoilt; used to having her own way and creating havoc if she can’t get it, and you have checked that to a large extent. I I and I’m sure her mother and father too are most grateful for that.”

“Thank you,” said Cordelia politely, and Waited; he surely hadn’t wanted to see her just to say that.

“I have arranged to be free on Saturday. We might drive to the Vienna Woods and perhaps have lunch at one of the little restaurants there.

I should be obliged if you will come too, Cordelia—we will leave mid morning and return directly after tea, that will be a long enough day for Eileen, besides I have a dinner engagement.”

“Very well. Doctor. Eileen will enjoy that.” She could hear her voice, very stiff and she tried to remedy matters.

“I shall enjoy it too. Is there anything else?”

The doctor sighed and shook his head.

“No, I think not. You have been happy here? Cordelia?”

The? Oh, yes thank you. Vienna’s a lovely city, isn’t it? And we’ve seen quite a lot of it…”

“But you?” He persisted, ‘you haven’t felt homesick or lonely?”

She thought of her bleak life with her stepmother and the children.

“No, neither.”

“I suppose that is fortunate, since this is your work and it may carry you a long way from home.”

She wondered what he would say if she told him that she had no home any more. It was surprising that two people could live in the same house for weeks on end and know nothing about each other. And still more surprising that she could love him so whole heartedly and yet know so little of him.

She remembered that he was going out that evening and got up.

“I’ll say good night. Doctor.”

He got up and opened the door.

“Good night, Cordelia.” She had the impression that he was going to say something else, but he didn’t and she went to the little sitting-room where Thompson had laid the table for her dinner.

The next few days were uneventful; Eileen, with the prospect of her parents arriving within the week, gave up her role of interesting invalid and became so active that Cordelia had to restrain her from doing too much.

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