He found her a job, in connection with a large children’s hospital, and after a few weeks, Rose was invited to occupy a room there.
“I’ll do it,” she decided; “it’s better than Squires, and I’ve got to make some sort of a life for myself. And it’s not long till the holidays anyway.”
At the thought of Cecil her heart lightened again.
“Hurst does seem to be doing him good,” she thought. “It was worth meeting Lord Charlesbury, after all, if only because he told me about Hurst for Cecil.”
PART II
FIVE YEARS LATER
I
“What have they done to him, Maurice?”
“I don’t know,” said the doctor, very thoughtfully indeed. “I don’t know.”
“There’s something.”