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‘and you’ll need to consult with Hal’s doctor today, when you take hiet some advice on how best to help him’ Sam’s voice carried clearly as she and Kit came down the hallway towards the kitchen ‘His knee joint and ed when he broke his femur, and there’s a certain process you have to know Don’t worry—it’s not difficult I think it’s called the RICE technique, which stands for—’
‘Rest, ice, compression and elevation,’ Kit cut in quietly ‘I’ve been studying quite a comprehensive first-aid book since I was told that Mr Treverne had a broken femur I’ve also spoken to one of my trainers at the centre where I took my first-aid courses’
She’d been studying a first-aid book? Even though he was irritated at being discussed as though he were a recalcitrant schoolboy who’d co to miss his school’s sports day because he’d contracted chicken pox, Hal owned to feeling o to such lengths even before she knew if she had the job or not
‘I’estion of a smile
‘Please don’t be My intention is siood job It’s no more than I would normally do when the person I’ve been hired to help is either recovering from an illness or an injury, Ms Whyte’
‘Please—call me Sa to you, so he’s expecting you to ask’ They came into the kitchen ‘You can also check with the nurse who co—there’s also a cleaner who co over Mrs Baker is her na housework My brother’s welfare is your main priority If he wants you to spend the entire day watching fil to music with him, then please don’t hesitate’
‘Are you quite finished? Only I’ to feel like so, Hal returned hisof coffee to the table with a heavy slae slopped over the lip and splashed onto his arm
Without prearabbed the kitchen cloth that was folded over the tap Then she hurried over to hi the cloth on his exposed forear the spill It was fortunate that he’d rolled up the sleeves of his cashht wryly, because the blue was a favourite of his But he guessed that, if required, his efficient new helper would no doubt have a handy solution for re coffee stains from delicate fabrics too
‘Thanks,’ he murmured when she had finished the clean-up
‘You’re welcome’
Her blue-eyed sht away intuited that when she s pleased her—the gesture would light up her face and render her al
‘Can I make you a fresh cup of coffee, Mr Treverne?’ she asked
Briefly catching his sister’s aed ‘Yes—why not? I guess I’ll be even more like a bear with a sore head if I don’t have my usual quota of caffeine’
‘How do you take it?’
‘Black with one sugar You should make one for yourself too’
‘Thanks—I will By the hat tiet to the hospital for your appointment?’
‘Ten o’clock’
‘Of course I re seneral chat about things For instance, you’ll need to tell h to acco your crutches yet you’re going to need it’
Not wanting to conte i crutches, Hal was terse ‘If it should transpire that I need the wheelchair—and I very much doubt it—then no doubt the hospital will supply one forrooood driver?’
Again, if he’d thought to disconcert Kit then he was disappointed With a confident toss of her head she moved over to the coffee machine and threw over her shoulder, ‘I tookcoloursso you can rest assured that I’ood driver, Mr Treverne’