A Star Looks Down

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Бетти Нилс. A Star Looks Down

“You should marry, Professor.” She added, “Someone suitable, of course.”

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A Star Looks Down. Betty Neels

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

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“How unpleasant that sounds! You consider that I have reached an age when a suitable marriage is all that is left for me?”

“Heavens, no. I’m not sure exactly how old you are, but William said thirty-five—that’s not in the least old—just right, in fact.”

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The two men went out together and Beth came from the corner where she had been waiting to take over the care of the patient. It was quiet in the Recovery Room; there were no other patients there, most of the staff were still at their dinner and Miss Toms, having performed her duties with the ease and perfection expected of her, had disappeared too. A theatre staff nurse and a student were getting the theatre ready once more for the afternoon list, in ten minutes or so the rest of them would be streaming back and the skeleton staff which had remained behind would be free to go to their dinners. But for the moment Beth was occupied with her patient; there was little enough to do, as she would be round in a few minutes—indeed, as Beth inspected the quiet face on the trolley, she could see a faint tremor of the eyelids, so that she began the usual routine of hand patting and ‘Wake up, Mevrouw Thorbecke, it’s all over, everything’s fine.’

She had to do this several times before her patient responded with a languid lifting of her eyelids and a mumbled word or two which made no sense at all.

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