“You speak as though you alone were bearing the whole thing.”
“Really ... er ... er,” her pompadour and bosom ascended, “Dr. Merritt always....” then her china blue eyes protruded and she snapped:
“You speak as though you suspect my service, Doctor. In all the years Dr. Merritt’s staff....”
“We suspect nobody, Miss Kerr. We do expect the nursing service to coöperate and do as it is ordered to by the medical. This is not a time for disagreements. Wherever the blame, until that blame is placed we are all culpable.
“Dr. MacArthur asked me before the meeting if there were any special nurses on B Ward. Are there?”
“None.”
“In what classes are the five student nurses?”
“Two in the class graduating in January, two in the next year’s class and one entered training last fall. Really, Dr. Ethridge, hasn’t my service been probed far enough? For you, Dr. MacArthur, the superintendent of nurses, and the head of the training school, to suspect my staff....”
Cub cut her short.
“We suspect nobody ... and everybody, Miss Kerr.”