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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