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“Is that what you told him? That I was going to get married? But I’m not… She drew a deep indignant breath. “I never heard anything like it—the nerve.”

“Ah, but I’m a surgeon. We need nerve.” He sounded quite undisturbed by her temper. “Why, I remember once in Utrecht there was a case…”

“I am not in the least bit interested in your cases,” she told him crossly. “You’ve behaved abominably!”

He nodded in agreement. “Oh, indeed I have. But in a year or two it won’t matter a bit. What will matter is that Rimada and Guake will be happily married.” He glanced at her, “And you will be married, Loveday, and so shall I.”

As he held the car door open for her, Loveday said tartly, “I really can’t think why I said I’d stay, for you are so rude. I can see that I’m not going to enjoy my holiday.”

He took her arm and walked her round to the terrace overlooking the sea. “Oh, yes, you are,” he assured her, smiling.