Heartbreak Surgeon by Sheila Burns

Author:Sheila Burns [Burns, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: medical fiction, nurse, doctor, medical romance, 1960s, sweet romance, vintage, nostalgia, happy ending, happy ever after, Cornwall
Publisher: Wyndham Books (Medical Romance)
Published: 2018-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Maudie was convinced that he, and not Michael Bland, had produced the change for the better in Mrs. Liskeard. He bounced into Wiseways next day and after a sojourn at the sideboard in Roger’s room (for without his morning tipple he was lost) he came on up to Mrs. Liskeard immediately afterwards. He was in a talkative mood.

‘These big London chaps come down and throw their weight about, charging the earth for the visit, and what happens? It’s always the fellow on the spot who gets the little lady round, isn’t it?’

Mrs. Liskeard seemed half to believe him. ‘But Mr. Bland did prescribe that very helpful new drug,’ she said, ‘and I am so glad that he’s coming back to see me next week.’

‘Ah!’ Maudie tapped his nose, a significant movement of his when in doubt, which Lorna had noted before. ‘I hear that Mr. Bland has booked himself a room at the Cross Keys, and intends to take a week’s holiday down here. That’ll surprise you, I’m sure. I shouldn’t have thought that our common or garden Cross Keys would be quite his cup of tea, for I’d have thought he was one of the collar-and-cuff brigade.’

He was laughing at his own joke so that he did not notice the horror in Lorna’s eyes as she glanced quickly at him. The thought of Michael being in the neighbourhood for a week was a terrifying one! It couldn’t be true! Maudie was right and surely the Cross Keys had not the suitable kind of accommodation for him? Yet Maudie sat there laughing gaily; he was one of the most detestable doctors that she had ever met, but somehow or other the Liskeards seemed to believe in him and like him.

Mrs. Liskeard said, ‘He has done wonders for me, and Lorna has been so good to me, too. I am feeling a great deal better.’

‘So you’ll be able to entertain the genius from London! Maudie giggled a little. ‘Well, don’t forget the old firm sometimes,’ and he patted her hand.

‘He really is rather a dear,’ said Mrs. Liskeard when he had gone, back to the sideboard as Lorna knew only too well, and there he and Roger would stay talking for quite a time. ‘If it’s true, I really am rather glad that Mr. Bland is coming down here for a week. Do find out if it is true, Lorna.’

‘I don’t see how I can without asking. Wouldn’t it be almost better if Roger rang up?’

‘Yes, of course.’ She could see that Mrs. Liskeard was turning a problem over in her mind. She lay there staring into the distance. ‘I know what we’ll do. We’ll ask him to stay here, in Wiseways! It would be far nicer for him than the Cross Keys where everybody knows it is most primitive, though I’m told that the food is good. That’s what we’ll do. We’ll ask him to stay here.’

Lorna wanted to scream, ‘Don’t do it! Don’t say it!’ but somehow she could not speak lest the tone of her voice betrayed her.

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