Roses For Christmas by Betty Neels

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

Her first glimpse of the house had taken her off balance; obviously her previous conception of Fulk as being a successful doctor, comfortably off, but no more than that, would have to be scrapped. His home, even at the first glance, had been revealed as old, magnificent and splendidly furnished. He had led them across the lofty square hall, with its polished floor strewn with rugs, its panelled walls and enormous chandelier hanging from an elaborate ceiling, into what she had supposed to be the sitting room, a room large enough to accommodate ten times their number, but somehow homelike with its enormous armchairs and sofas flanking the hooded fireplace, handsomely framed portraits on the walls and a variety of charming table lamps set on fragile tables. He had invited them to sit down, saying that he would go at once to Henry to see how he did. He was back within a short while, reassuring them at once that the boy was holding his own nicely. `He wants to see you, Eleanor,’ he had told her. `I haven’t told him that Margaret is here, time for that when he feels more himself. Juffrouw Witsma has supper ready for us-I suggest that we have it at once so that Margaret can go to bed.’

She had agreed at once, only begging that she might see Henry first, and he had raised no objection, merely remarking that if she didn’t mind, he and Margaret would start their meal. `And then if you are not back, I’ll take Margaret up to her room and see her settled in,’ he promised, `but first I will show you where Henry is.’

The stairs were oak and uncarpeted, with a massive banister, and at their top she followed him across a wide landing and down two steps into a little passage, thickly carpeted. With his hand on one of the three doors in it, he turned to her. `The day nurse is still here, I shall be taking her back to Groningen in the morning, but I arranged with the hospital that unless I telephoned, there would be no need for the night nurse.’

He stared down at her, his eyes half hidden by their lids. `Your room is next door and communicates with his, and he will be quite safe to leave while he is sleeping, but you will do just as you wish-you have only to ask for anything you require and if you would prefer the night nurse to come, I will see to it at once.’

She had thanked him sincerely. `You are being so very kind and you have done so much already … there’s no need of a nurse; if you don’t mind, I’d like to be with Henry, just in case he wakes up during the night.’

He had nodded without comment and opened the door for her. She remembered how the beauty of the room had struck her and the feeling of gratitude towards Fulk for not dismissing Henry as just another

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