A Man To Tame - Rachel Lindsay (Roberta Leigh) Read Online Free PDF Page B

said
firmly. 'After all, this isDr
Morris's home and I wouldn't dream of changing it .’
    ‘We wouldn't sell his stuff,'
Dermot Kane smiled.
‘Only
just put it into storage for him. It isn't
very feminine,' he added, looking around. 'I suggest you go into Burman's at the weekend. It's the best store in Llanduff and they have a surprisingly good collection of furniture
and fabrics. Order what you like and——-'
    'No, thank you,’ she said firmly.
    He shrugged. 'Well, if you change
your mind, just go right ahead and do so. Incidentally, you have permission to
drive Dr Morris's car. In fact he insisted on it. It won't do it any good to
stand idly in the garage.'
    'I was going to ask about
transport,' she said-with a sigh of relief, ‘but I never expected anything as
grand as
a
car. I thought I'd have to manage with a bike.'
    He chuckled. 'It's a nice little
Triumph.'
    'Aptly named for me,' she said
dryly, and was rewarded by another chuckle.
    'I think you'll find enough food in
the larder for today,' the young man continued, 'though you'll probably need to
fill it up. The shops have nearly everything you can get in London except the
more exotic type of vegetables. For those you'll have to go to Cardiff.’
    'Do you live near here?’ she asked
curiously.
    'About five minutes' drive away.
I'm in digs with a Mrs Hughes.'
    ‘I
should think nothing is more than five minutes away from
anything else in Llanduff,' she commented.
    The town isn't as small as it
looks. There's a new shopping section on the far side which you didn't see as
we drove through, and quite a big. housing estate too.
Then there's the Howard Estate where most of the employees live.' He went to
the window and pointed across the green to rows of chimneys, like a pink smudge
on the skyline. That's it,' he said. 'Five hundred houses-enough for most of
the married workers.'
    'Within walking distance of me,'
she commented. 'I'm surprised Dr Morris didn't have a surgery here too.'
    There's a small one set up at the
back of the house but it's nothing like the one at the factory.'
    'Do show me,' she said eagerly, and
followed him through the small kitchen to the back garden. Here a onetime
conservatory had been made into a waiting room and surgery. The rooms were’
small but adequate for their requirements, and she decided that once she had
established a routine for herself at the factory she would start to have
consulting hours here too. 'Did many of the men come to see Dr Morris here?'
she asked.
    They mostly saw him in the factory.
He intended this set-up to be used by the wives and children. But I gather the
experiment didn't’ turn out successfully and after a few months he said he
didn't get enough patients to make it worthwhile to open.'
    Kate refused to let this
information depress her into changing her plans. With Dermot Kane beside her
she returned to the house. It realty was exceptionally dreary and cold. She
shivered and he saw it.
    There's central heating here,' he
said, ‘but it works, from a boiler.' He looked at the small coal stove that
stood in the comer of the kitchen. ‘I’ll get it going for you.'
    ‘Please don't worry,' she said more
cheerfully than she did. 'I'll go out for a snack tonight and then see about
settling in properly during the weekend.'
    ‘What's wrong with tomorrow?'
    ‘
I
rather assumed I would be expected to start work then.'
    ‘Mr
Howard doesn't expect you to start until Monday. The idea of you coming down
mid-week was to give you a chance to settle in.'
    'I won't need all that time to get
settled in,' she said positively. ‘I’ll be at the factory first thing in the
morning. They start at eight, don't they?'
    ‘Dr Morris didn't begin Until nine. Nine to eleven, three to five. The rest of the
time he Went out on visits.’
    Kate felt that her predecessor had
not overworked himself. If he only had to deal with the men—since according-to
Dermot Kane the women had not utilized his services—he should have had a