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‘I’d like you to meet our new theatre nurse. I’ve just had to practically drag her away from the clutches of young Dr Anderson! Staff Nurse Carpenter, this is Dr Kershaw—our Surgeon-in-Charge.’

It was as though someone had pulled a shutter down in front of those grey eyes, thought Kate as he stared at her. All the passion and amination had been wiped clean from his face, which now looked blank and cold.

‘Miss Carpenter,’ he said. ‘You and I seem to be meeting with monotonous regularity.’

Tessa Hetherington was looking closely from one to the other. ‘Am I to assume that you two are already friends?’ Her voice sounded high and forced. It seemed to Kate that she was carrying a very large torch for the moody Dr Kershaw.

‘Hardly friends, Sister,’ replied Kate evenly. ‘I’ve met Dr Kershaw briefly on two occasions in Perth. Ours has been the most fleeting of acquaintanceships!’

‘You certainly don’t waste much time, Nurse!’ she said brightly and turned to him conspiratorially. ‘As I said, I found Nurse Carpenter in deep conversation with Dr Anderson, and she’d only been in the building for five minutes!’

‘Really?’ The surgeon’s arch query carried a wealth of disapproval. ‘I must say I don’t envy you your job one bit, Tessa. Trying to keep the nurses’ minds on their work and out of the doctors’ hair must be an uphill battle.’ He stood up suddenly and his tall angular frame seemed to fill the room.