The Obsession by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, women's general fiction, saga, social history, historic, Cookson, romance
Publisher: Peach Publishing
Published: 2011-03-23T13:00:00+00:00

Ten

For the past two days John had been attending a course of lectures at a London hospital, and he had just left Trafalgar Square and was walking towards Regent Street when a figure he had noticed darting between two cabs came to a breathless stop in front of him and gasped, ‘I . . . I thought it was you, but I wasn’t sure.’

John saw a tall, well-dressed, tanned young man, and for a moment he did not recall who he was, until the young man added, ‘You’re a long way from Fellburn. I never expected to see anyone from there down here, and . . . and it’s my last day. Well, I leave tomorrow.’

Until that moment John had been unable to recall who the man was. And then the name hit him. This was Teddy, Rosie’s Teddy; Edward Golding, whom he had first met at the garden party, on Beatrice’s twenty-first birthday. But this wasn’t the Teddy who had ruined Rosie’s life. He had changed. The other Teddy had been more like his name; young, very young. This one was a mature man. And now he was being asked if everything was all right back in Fellburn. And he answered stiffly, ‘Yes; when I left three days ago, things were much as usual.’

His voice low and his face now unsmiling, the young man said, ‘How is Rosie?’

The nerve of the fellow, to ask how Rosie was; so he answered bluntly, ‘She’s very well and apparently enjoying her work.’

‘Rosie working? Is she better then?’

John put his head to one side, saying, ‘Better? I have never known Rosie to be ill, except with a cold.’

‘You what? You . . . you are her doctor, aren’t you?’

‘Yes, I am her doctor.’

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