The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

Author:Joanna Davidson Politano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance;Love Stories;FIC042110;FIC042030;FIC027170
ISBN: 9781493426607
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2020-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

When I escorted my patient into the drawing room for the meal at half past, Parker met me at the door with a long white envelope. “This came for you, miss.”

I hardly glanced at the thing, intending to slip it in my pocket, but the return address shocked me. I stopped and leaned one hand on the wall as Golda brushed through the doors—Durham University School of Medicine.

It was a cruel mistake, this letter from the school that had already barred my application. I tore at the wax seal with trembling fingers. I yanked out the single folded sheet, eagerly reading it all.

We are pleased to inform you that your application has been received by the admissions board and we are considering it along with the other submissions. Be advised that, should you be accepted for admission to this university, you will receive a separate letter with the applicable dates for arrival and fee schedule for . . .

My vision blurred, then refocused. I scanned it again. Was this real? Yes, it was. But how? I read the letter again, feeling this moment sinking into the history pages of my life. It was here in black-and-white—they were considering my application, the one that listed a woman’s name on the top. They were considering a woman. This woman.

My heart pounded and tears formed. It was my very own sort of love letter, one that thrilled my heart with a rapture greater than all four proposals combined. I sank onto a page boy stool in the hall, clutching the letter and wondering what sort of magic had occurred. For them to send this, to know I was here, rather than at home—a miracle, that’s how. God is God, Mama had always said. He can do anything he wants.

How interesting and lovely the world suddenly seemed.

I nearly pounced on poor Aunt Maisie when she rounded the corner and held the letter before her cloudy blue eyes. She blinked through it, then that whiskered chin hung down to her chest, eyes wide and lips quivering.

“Ahahah, you’ve done it, my girl. You’ve done it!” She cackled with glee and wrapped her arms around me.

I walked into dinner with poise and tried to focus enough to join the conversation.

“I trust things are going well with your patient, Miss Duvall.” Dr. Tillman spoke from across the table when we’d been seated.

They’d paired us together at the end, as we had both been included by a technicality of social graces, and Aunt Maisie eyed us with her shrewd monkey-eyes. She’d turned into her usual dinnertime statue, but I felt her gaze. Oddly enough, I seemed to have Celeste’s as well. “As well as can be expected, I suppose.”

“Glad to hear it.” Tillman smiled around his bite and continued to watch me expectantly.

I gave a faltering smile, uncertain exactly what I was supposed to say. “And you? Did you pass a few productive days in town?”

“Quite.”

A pleasant hum of voices punctuated by clinking flatware served as the background noise. Golda spoke to Burke about her presentation of verses and meeting Longfellow.

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