Three for a Wedding by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels [Neels, Betty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488084676
Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases
Published: 1973-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

AS it happened, it was Doctor Pontier round the corner. He was waiting for Phoebe at Schipol, and she, who had passed the flight in an indulging of impossible daydreams in which Lucius had come to meet her with every sign of delight, had difficulty in schooling her face into an expression of pleased surprise at the sight of his registrar.

He took her case and walked her out to where his car stood waiting.

‘The boss asked van Loon to pick you up,’ he explained, ‘but I tossed him for it.’ He laughed and Phoebe, of necessity, laughed with him.

‘What about the ward round?’ she asked.

‘Jan will stand in for me. I told the boss—he said it didn’t matter to him who fetched you as long as someone did.’

She was aware of ruffled feelings. It was rather like being a parcel which had to be collected; so much for her half-formed plans and hopes! She had allowed herself to drift from one delightful dream to the next during the last couple of days, and a lot of good they were doing her—a little realism would be a good thing. She turned to her companion and said cheerfully: ‘Well, it’s jolly nice to see you. I was just a bit worried about getting to Delft, though I’m sure it’s easy enough—but this is much nicer. I wonder when I’m expected on duty?’

He got into the car and started the engine. ‘I rather think this afternoon—there’s a staff nurse off sick, nothing much, but she could be cooking up something. Mies will be glad to see you.’

Nice to be wanted, thought Phoebe, nice to fill a niche, even a humble one. Even nicer if Lucius wanted her back too. She resolutely put him out of her mind and entertained Doctor Pontier with some of the lighter aspects of Sybil’s wedding.

She didn’t see Lucius until the evening, when after a heavy afternoon’s work, he came quietly on to the ward, Mies and Arie with him. She had already seen these two, of course, but there had been little time to say much, only Mies had found time to apologise for asking Phoebe to go straight on duty. She smiled at Phoebe as they came down the ward now, but it was Doctor van Someren who spoke, and his impersonal friendliness chilled the warmth she felt at seeing him again.

‘Nurse Brook, we are more than glad to see you back again. I hope you had a pleasant time at your sister’s wedding? You were fortunate to have such splendid weather.’

She murmured something unintelligible to this rather prosy remark, but as he wasn’t listening she might just as well have said nothing at all. ‘Wil,’ he went on immediately, ‘I’m not too happy about the child. We changed the dosage, didn’t we? But the chest infection doesn’t respond we had better try something else.’ He turned to Arie Lagemaat and switched to Dutch, and Phoebe, called by one of the children, went to attend to his small wants.

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