She announced that a person from the
hospital wished to speak to the English doctor.
The messenger proved to be a young man employed in the secretary's
office. Oxbye still persisting in his desire to be placed under Mr.
Vimpany's care; one last responsibility rested on the official
gentlemen now in charge of him. They could implicitly trust the medical
assistance and the gracious hospitality offered to the poor Danish
patient; but, before he left them, they must also be satisfied that he
would be attended by a competent nurse. If the person whom Mr. Vimpany
proposed to employ in this capacity could be brought to the hospital,
it would be esteemed a favour; and, if her account of herself satisfied
the physician in charge of Oxbye's case, the Dane might be removed to
his new quarters on the same day.
The next morning witnessed the first in a series of domestic incidents
at the cottage, which no prophetic ingenuity could have foreseen. Mr.
Vimpany and Fanny Mere actually left Passy together, on their way to
Paris!
CHAPTER XLIII
FICTION: ATTEMPTED BY MY LORD
THE day on which the doctor took his newly-appointed nurse with him to
the hospital became an occasion associated with distressing
recollections in the memory of Iris.
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