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He walked Rachel across the hall to the door leading to the nurses’ home, opened it, put the case inside and said, “I don’t dare to go a step further and certainly not at this hour of night. You are all right, Rachel?”

She lifted a grateful face to his. “Yes, thank you very much—I can’t thank you enough, Radmer—and I must stop calling you that now, mustn’t I? I’ll see you in the morning.”

She smiled at him, making a brave attempt to behave normally.

“Good night, Rachel.” He bent his head suddenly and kissed her hard on her surprised mouth, turned on his heel and walked away.

She picked up her case and started up the stairs. She had been feeling dreadful, rejected, undesirable and not worth a second look, but somehow his kiss had changed that. Somewhere, right at the bottom of her unhappiness, there was a small…