A Betty Neels Christmas: A Christmas Proposal\Winter Wedding by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

EMILY NEED NOT have worried; when she went on duty the next day it was to be told by Sister that Professor Jurres-Romeijn had gone back to his own country.

Emily felt a curious sinking sensation. ‘For good?’ she asked.

‘No, no, some date he had with someone or other—a girl-friend, most likely—he’s not married, you know.’ She glanced at Emily. ‘You look a bit under the weather, Staff—too much dancing last night, I suppose.’ She didn’t wait for Emily to reply but went on briskly. ‘Go and see to Mr Taylor, will you. He’s very nervous of his tube—try and explain to him…’

She dismissed Emily with a nod and bent her head over her paper work once more.

Emily hadn’t seen Louisa before she left for work. She had seen to the twins, given them their early morning feed, eaten a hasty meal herself and then nipped quietly into Louisa’s room with her alarm clock, set for half past eight. The twins wouldn’t sleep after that, even on full tummies, and Louisa would probably not wake. It was a pity, Emily thought worriedly, that she wouldn’t be home until after five o’clock, Louisa would be tired after the ball and perhaps impatient with the twins. But she had to dismiss any doubts from her mind and get on with her work. The wards were full and there would be a theatre list tomorrow; patients had to be prepared, reassured and advised as to how they should behave after the operation.

Emily went through her day with her usual calm good sense, not allowing any private thoughts to intrude into it. Only as she was cycling home did she let her mind roam. Louisa would be cross, she felt sure. After the excitement of the ball, the dull routine of her day would have irked her, the necessity of feeding and bathing the babies, taking them for a walk in their pram, doing the household chores, would have brought on one of her bad moods. She had had them as a child; when she found that she wasn’t to have her own way, she had sulked and cried and made life miserable for everyone, until, very often, she had been given in to. Emily heaved such an enormous sigh that she almost fell off her bike. It was to be hoped that the Professor had been so charming that Louisa was still under his influence.

Which to a certain extent was true. Louisa, after a brief grumble about her hard day, launched herself into an account of her evening which lasted while Emily took off her things, made the tea, went to see the twins, and came downstairs again. They shouldn’t have been in their cots as early as they were, but as Louisa explained, she was so tired herself that she had put them there in the hope that they might sleep until their feed was due. ‘And I took them out this afternoon,’ she said virtuously. ‘Although I could hardly put one foot in front of the other.

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