When Love Awaits
“Thorpe was at wit’s end. It had seemed a simple wound. Rolfe had received worse than that and recovered quickly. This wound actually seemed to be sapping his strength. A fever started the second day and climbed until Rolfe raged in delirium, calling for his wife one moment and cursing her the next. He didn’t recognize Thorpe at all.
Odo, that cur, had sneaked out of the keep, escaping before he could be blamed for Rolfe’s worsening condition.
Thorpe did not know what to do. No, that was not the... truth. There was one thing he could do, and finally he did it, sending a servant to fetch Rolfe’s wife. When she came into the room, her servant Wilda with her, he had the grace to look ashamed. He flinched when she let out a stream of curses.
“Why did you not call me sooner?” she demanded of Thorpe. “The dirt within the wound is killing him.”
“I did not change his bandages,” Thorpe replied defensively. “So I haven’t seen the wound.”
“You should have! I warned you Odo would do more harm than good.”MoreLess
Odo, that cur, had sneaked out of the keep, escaping before he could be blamed for Rolfe’s worsening condition.
Thorpe did not know what to do. No, that was not the... truth. There was one thing he could do, and finally he did it, sending a servant to fetch Rolfe’s wife. When she came into the room, her servant Wilda with her, he had the grace to look ashamed. He flinched when she let out a stream of curses.
“Why did you not call me sooner?” she demanded of Thorpe. “The dirt within the wound is killing him.”
“I did not change his bandages,” Thorpe replied defensively. “So I haven’t seen the wound.”
“You should have! I warned you Odo would do more harm than good.”MoreLess
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