Vigil in the Night by A. J. Cronin

Author:A. J. Cronin
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: A. J. Cornell Publications
Published: 2014-01-10T23:00:00+00:00

She bit her lip, hurt beyond endurance at this reference to her unhappy, her pitiful effort to secure Bowley’s support for his clinic.

Remorselessly he went on. “Your concern is no doubt flattering. But I wish you to understand that I allow no one to interfere in my business. Least of all a nurse.”

“I’m sorry,” she whispered.

“No doubt,” he returned with that cool and cutting irony. “But you are no more sorry than I. Your predilection for the dramatic has effectively ruined any chance I ever had of achieving my clinic in Manchester. I have to thank you for a very pretty piece of bungling.”

She could not speak. Fighting back her tears, she could merely hang her head. There was a pause.

He still did not look at her. Then he concluded: “I don’t know what your plans are. Indeed, I have no wish to know. But I imagine that, leaving the Hepperton like this, you may have some difficulty in finding an adequate position. I have no wish, in fairness, that your actual nursing service here should pass unrecognized. If you take this letter to the matron of the London Trafalgar Hospital, she will look after you suitably. Good-bye, Nurse Lee.”

Brokenly she accepted the unsealed envelope he held out to her. He did not offer to shake hands. There was nothing that she could say. And so she turned and, with an agonizing sense of defeat, walked slowly from the room.

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