Another Man's Child by June Francis

Author:June Francis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788635165
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Molly was so exhausted she hardly had any fight left in her. She had tried pushing but, oh, it hurt so much! Then suddenly she was aware of a commotion in the street below and men’s voices. Someone was hammering at the front door.

Gert and Mrs McNally gazed across the bed at each other and the latter got up and went downstairs, thinking it might be Ma with the priest. But no sooner was the door open than she was pushed aside. ‘The mother?’ said a man in a frock coat and striped trousers with the sharpest of creases. He was carrying a black medical bag.

‘Upstairs,’ said Mrs McNally, bewildered but thankful, wondering who had sent for him.

He hurried up the stairs, followed by a nurse and a younger man carrying some kind of large metal canister with gadgets attached. Nathan was just behind them. Mrs McNally stared in astonishment.

‘She’s still alive?’ he said, looking pinched about the mouth.

She nodded, and he made to follow them up but she caught his sleeve. ‘You’d better stay here, lad,’ she said grimly. ‘I don’t know what she is to you, and I don’t want to know, but you’ll only be in the way up there. I’ll make us a cup of tea.’

Upstairs the doctor was ordering Gert out of the way. He bent over Molly and examined her. ‘It’ll soon be over, my dear,’ he said briskly. ‘We’re going to give you something to make things easier for you.’ She thought he looked a strange kind of angel. A rubber mask was placed over her nose and mouth. It smelled peculiar and for a brief moment Molly struggled against it. Then as the pain ebbed she went with it.

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