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this blonde . " " Really ? " Nigel cocked | |
one eyebrow . " Actually she was brunette | |
evening . " " No , don't , " he said , after | |
particular surgery ? " " You are a fool , | |
" Now I wonder which I wore at that | |
" My white or my black ? " Nigel enquired . | |
the housemen think of me as a | |
two-timing Don Juan . | |
exactly what you were doing that | |
kissing her again . " I rather like to have | |
darling , " Di said happily . " I shall take | |
great pleasure in telling that young man | |
" You need your holiday , darling . I only | |
I 'm such a dull fellow , really . " " Dull ? " She | |
couldn't believe it . Self-deprecation | |
I suppose ? " she enquired archly . | |
wish I could go with you ! " " Doctor | |
" It would make me more interesting , | |
was not one of Nigel's usual attributes . | |
Wills , if you 're making improper suggestions ... ? " | |
" No , it wouldn't ! " he almost snapped , | |
leave in the autumn without you | |
become you to behave like a - a tart , Di . " | |
body else for a moment there . It doesn't | |
miserable enough my having to take my | |
" Nigel - ! " she gasped . " I didn't mean to | |
behave like anything of the kind . I | |
trying to be bright and gay about it . | |
surprising her . " You sounded like some- | |
was only joking . " " Well , don't . It 's | |
at this time of year ? I can't ask you up because it 's | |
can't imagine the hospital without me for | |
a strictly stag affair . " " I know . I didn't expect ... " " Well , | |
three weeks , etcetera , etcetera ! " | |
come with me ; you hope I 'll miss you ; you | |
don't keep hinting , then . You wish you could | |
I 'm going with a shooting party . What else can I do | |
regard first . " I would mind if you didn't " he told her | |
right , pet . I do need this leave . I 'm bad-tempered and | |
Her figure was small and exquisite , like a schoolgirl's still , and | |
broody and going out with brash blondes . I don't deserve | |
he admired her legs , which the male sex were inclined to | |
grimly , and tugged her fiercely into his arms . " You 're | |
you . " | |
make all the waiting worth while . When we 're | |
" Darling ! " her voiced caressed him . " Moments like this | |
married we won't have these explosions of emotion , | |
isn't as bad as an operation , Nigel ! " | |
will we ? " " No , " he eyed her strangely . " I wish we | |
were married , Di . Like a patient wishes his operation | |
was over . " Again her laughter trilled . " Marriage | |
me isn't going to be all that bad ? | |
the moment , thank God ! " Problem ... ? | |
he could be serious . " Surely marrying | |
" Isn't it ? " he rose and smoothed himself | |
or a burial ? " she asked , hardly believing | |
looming ... ? " Are we discussing a marriage | |
down . " Ask any bridegroom-to-be . Anyhow , | |
that particular problem isn't looming at | |
it , looking moodily beyond her . " Perhaps it 's as | |
well if you don't wear it for a bit , Di , " he | |
of amusement in his own eyes , however , he took | |
your ring back . " She loosened the half-hoop of | |
diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it | |
told her . | |
out to him , still playfully . Without a glimmer | |
If it is - " she laughed uncertainly - " you can have | |
doctor would be free during the day ; tea was served | |
from four until five-thirty in the residents' common- | |
she was convinced , or he would have granted her small request | |
Something had cropped up which required Nigel's attention , | |
room , which proved the elasticity of medical commitments . | |
Diana was trailing up the gravelled drive to the hospital | |
to be met at the gates . | |
alone . Of course one couldn't say for certain when a | |
Thus had they parted the previous evening and now |
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