The Shy Nurse's Christmas Wish

‘How would you like to come and stay with me? I have a spare bedroom, so would be able to keep an eye on you during the night, and bring you with me for the day each morning where you could get better by resting and watching your sister and myself performing our daily tasks.’

‘Yes, maybe,’ he agreed when she suggested it, with the thought in his mind that chance might be a fine thing if the lifeboat was called out as often as it usually was at such times.

At that moment Bethany awoke and as Cordelia helped her daughter eat, Darcey went to check on the rest of her young patients and wished that Daniel was there, doing his rounds with her as he would normally be, while instead his presence had been restricted to the night hours that were going to be followed by a very busy day.
Yet typically he managed to call at the ward for a few moments in the lunch hour and was satisfied to hear that the soreness of Bethany’s lower spine was decreasing, she was in less pain and that a second X-ray had shown no further complications.