Seven Dials
“The windows glittered with cleanliness behind snowy curtains and the white paintwork that gleamed everywhere was immaculate. Altogether, Charlie thought, gazing round, the place looks as though it belongs in a shop window. I do hope Brin isn’t hating it here; I do hope it isn’t all as starchy and fussy as this hallway looks. I should have checked it for myself before I sent him here, but there just wasn’t time - A tall woman in the navy dress and flowing white veil of the hospital matron came p...adding softly from the far side of the central staircase, smiling frostily. ‘Miss Lucas?’ she said, in a low and obviously carefully modulated voice. ‘May I help you? I understand you have come to see one of our patients. From Queen Eleanor’s Hospital.’ Her accent was so very refined and proper that she could hardly get the words out.
‘Please,’ Charlie said sharply, finding the woman’s particularly careful enunciation of Nellie’s full name grating. No one called the place Queen Eleanor’s any more, for heaven’s sake, she thought irritably.MoreLess
‘Please,’ Charlie said sharply, finding the woman’s particularly careful enunciation of Nellie’s full name grating. No one called the place Queen Eleanor’s any more, for heaven’s sake, she thought irritably.MoreLess
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