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CHAPTER THREE

‘RIGHT, that’s everything on file,’ Dr Beth Stuart said to Miranda. ‘Your lot and Benita’s. She’ll be along in a minute, you said.’

‘She’s still getting her group settled. I won’t be surprised if it takes a while.’

‘Well, we won’t wait for her. I’ll show you our set-up, and you probably have questions, Miranda.’

‘At the moment, I’m too impressed to think of them! Speechless, really.’

‘I know. It’s pretty fantastic, isn’t it? Charles says it’s an ill wind—’ Beth interrupted herself. ‘That’s Charles Wetherby, Medical Director, I mean. You’ll meet him. Soon, I expect. He said he’d pop in, and if not he’ll be at dinner in the camp dining room.’ She looked at her watch. ‘Only an hour away. Time’s getting on.’

‘He lives out here? I thought—’

‘He’s based in Crocodile Creek, yes, on the mainland. But this place is his baby, administratively part of the Crocodile Creek Hospital, and he pushed through the rebuilding after the cyclone with amazing speed. That’s what he meant about the ill wind. It took a cyclone to get a state-of-the-art medical centre here, but now it means we can take kids for the camp that we couldn’t have taken in the past because their health was too iffy for us to handle.’

‘Were you here when the cyclone hit?’

‘No, I’ve only been working here for a few weeks.’