Nurse Lang
“he said to Moira a week later when she was tidying his room preparatory to moving his books and other belongings across to the small private ward which had been made ready for him. “I did want Grant to know, though, and Serena.”Moira hated herself for feeling as if she had been given some sort of reprieve, and when Grant came in and heard his brother’s decision he looked sharply from one to the other.“When did you settle this?” he asked calmly enough, almost, Moira felt, with indifference.“I’ve thought it all along, really,” Philip confessed. “You know how I feel about pity, and I don’t want this operation to be smothered in it.”Grant permitted himself another brief glance in Moira’s direction. “And what does—your fiancée think?” he asked.Moira felt the color draining from her cheeks, but she managed to say evenly:“It still won’t be a secret engagement, not in the sense you disapprove of so strongly, Grant.” Her voice almost faltered, but she forced herself to continue: “It will be—a ...family affair, if you like.”“Very much a family affair!”MoreLess
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