Nurse Ann Wood by Valerie K. Nelson

Author:Valerie K. Nelson [Nelson, Valerie K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1963-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ann looked at him, wondering whether he could see what had really happened. To her it seemed the height of meanness on Doctor Lyntrope’s part to be throwing the blame on Mrs. Trederrick’s maid for what she herself had said.

“All right, Maureen,” he conceded, and Ann turned away, suddenly feeling desolate. Whatever Doctor Lyntrope suggested seemed to be right in his eyes. Perhaps it was jealousy which made her say:

“My opinion is that the children’s future is a matter only for the family and it shouldn’t be discussed by strangers.”

“Strangers!” Iain looked bewildered. So far as he was aware, no strangers had been discussing it. But Maureen Lyntrope was quick to catch the implication. She almost spat,

“If anyone is a stranger, it’s you, who after all this time have thought fit to come interfering in your sister’s affairs!” she snapped. “And what with your boy friend on the motor-cycle, and what with Iain seeing you come walking from the woods with Burrows on your first evening here, it seems to me that you’ll have precious little time for or interest in the children, now you have come. You’re certainly living up to your reputation.”

Ann stood petrified by the fury of the onslaught. Doctor Lyntrope was acting like a fishwife, and she must be quite beside herself to lower her dignity in such a fashion in Iain Sherrarde’s presence.

But Ann got no consolation from that reflection. She was smarting from the barb that Iain had misjudged her about Burrows, and had added insult to injury by discussing her and her apparent indiscretions with this hateful young woman. And what was this talk of her reputation?

She walked over to the door, determined to act no longer as hostess to either of them. This house was not hers and she had invited neither of them into it. “Please excuse me,” she said coldly. “I feel that it would be unprofitable to continue this discussion, and I must go to Beverley. She may be wanting me.”

She did not give them the opportunity of detaining her, but went quickly out of the room, jerking the door shut behind her, crossed the hall and ran upstairs to change into her uniform.

He had dared to discuss her with that creature! She would never forgive him.

In the room she had left, Maureen Lyntrope turned to the french window and then back to her companion. “Come along, Iain, we’re wasting time here.” She took a sharply distasteful glance around the room. “The place looks as if it’s never had a good turn-out since Ray’s parents lived here. Really, that awful girl ... She’s even worse than I imagined she would be. What a family! Poor Ray!”

Sherrarde said nothing as he followed her out of the french window on to the terrace. Maureen’s expression was now everything that could be described as pleasant, in direct contrast to his, which was angry and disturbed.

That horrible girl had succeeded in antagonizing him completely, she reflected complacently. He might agree now to what

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