Nurse Abroad (Challowsford Series No. 1) by Essie Summers

Author:Essie Summers [Summers, Essie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He’d seen her in many guises ... Like this: poised, well-groomed, at home in the nautical sophistication of the captain’s cabin: cool, starched, efficient in the Granger home, delivering twins without batting an eyelid, or showing fear lest mother or babe slip away from her skill; cooking for shearers, being matey with big Hori, the Maori shearer; trundling fowl manure from the hen-houses: to the vegetable garden, which she dug herself, in heavy boots ... but which was the real Sarah? Was any of them real, or part of a composite picture with which she hoped to convince him that her motives were not acquisitive ones? He didn’t know.

Sarah looked up, found his eyes on her, said, “Would you like me to help, outside tonight? I’ll help milk.”

“No, we don’t need you,” he said curtly. Then, since he felt Mrs. Mac’s disapproving eye on him, “Thanks all the same. We’ve enough help with Pauline and Rory. You lend Mrs. Mac a hand with the meal.”

Sarah bit her lip, bent and picked up the children’s indescribable sandshoes and wet bathing togs, and went into the house.

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