A Girl Named Rose by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels [NEELS, BETTY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Published: 2011-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

the summer weather had broken as Rose got off the bus and hurried through the rain to the hospital entrance. Slow drops of rain were falling and great clouds were piling up above her head. There would be a storm before morning and if the weather turned bad it would mean an evening in the sitting-room, drinking endless cups of tea and bandying hospital gossip. She took her case to her room and went down to the canteen for her supper and found most of her friends there. They greeted her noisily, all agog to tell her the news that Sadie had given in her notice. Alice, who always got hold of gossip before anyone else, said, “She decided to get married just like that. Giving up nursing too, her Tom’s been offered promotion and they’ve a chance of a house.” Alice added importantly, “We’re having a whip round to get her a present.”

Having delivered herself of this important piece of news she started on Rose.

“We never heard much about your job in Holland. Have you heard how the little boy is getting on? Your Shirley’s doing awfully well. He’s a wizard, isn’t he, that Dutch surgeon? What’s he like to work for?”

“Just as nice as Mr. Cresswell,” said Rose, not wanting to talk about him.

“What are we going to get Sadie?”

There was plenty to do on the ward; little Shirley was well on the way to recovery and didn’t need as much attention but there were several ill children and a battered baby, a poor scrap, undernourished, unloved and covered in bruises. With care he would become a normal baby again but it was going to take time and patience. Rose was glad to have something to keep her busy and her mind off her own affairs.

And after a week, when the baby was beginning to look like a baby once more, she turned her mind to her holiday, only a week away now.

Another dress, she decided, something she could wear in the evenings.

She found a printed lawn with a frilled shawl collar and short full sleeves in a pale cyclamen pink, belted round her slim waist. She brought two or three T-shirts as well, in pastel colours, and a widely pleated deep cream skirt and cardigan to go with it. Trying them all on after duty she felt quite excited; it was unlikely that she would see Sybren Werdmer ter Sane, but if she did she wouldn’t look too bad.

Even Alice, that dampener of good spirits, observed that the dress did something for her.

She had heard from Christina; would she get herself a ticket on a morning flight to Amsterdam and someone would meet her there. There was a plane getting in at eleven o’clock, she had written, if Rose could get a seat on it, and if she couldn’t would she let her know at once? So everything was arranged and Rose went on duty on a morning four days before she was due to start her holiday to find Mr.

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