Ragged Rose by Court Dilly

Author:Court, Dilly [Court, Dilly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780008137366
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-11-13T08:00:00+00:00

Sal heaved herself off the chair. ‘I’m gasping for a cup of tea.’

‘Shall I send for the doctor?’ Rose asked anxiously.

‘I’m better at this than any man living.’ Bertha glared at the woman with the pipe. ‘Put that pipe out, Sal. I can’t hardly breathe for the smoke. If you want to be useful go downstairs and get hot water and some clean rags, and don’t hang about. If you don’t come back straight away I won’t help you when your time comes.’ She shot a sideways glance at Rose. ‘You can give us a hand.’

‘Is she going to die?’ Rose moved closer to the bed.

‘Not if I can help it. You do as I say and if you’re going to swoon make sure you fall onto the floor and not the bed.’

Two hours later Rose was on her way downstairs to the kitchen with a bowl of blood-stained rags in her hands when Sukey answered the door to Vere. He came to a halt, staring at her in surprise. ‘Rose? What’s happened?’

She had lost track of the time during the drama of helping a new life into the world. It had been a difficult birth, and she could only admire the expert way in which Bertha had dealt with the mother and the newborn baby girl, but a quick glance at the longcase clock in the hall reminded her that she should have been getting ready for her evening out with Vere. ‘I’m sorry,’ she said. ‘I had to help upstairs. It was an emergency.’

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