Chapter 31
Bridie had no idea what was happening in the hospital. Only that Siân was gone. Dead. Through a judder of sobs, she heard raised voices from within the hospital. Saw the door fly open, a tight-lipped Doctor Roberts stalk along the deck. He didn’t return. Hours later, Reverend Cummings appeared. There was no shouting after he entered the hospital. Only a murmur of voices to interrupt their hushed supper preparations, the occasional rasp of Rhys’s anguish.
After supper, the carpenter climbed down the ladder with the burial board. He didn’t turn down the lamps as he had every other evening. He helped lift Siân and the baby’s bodies onto the board. They were sewn into a white shroud. The bier was lifted shoulder high. Rhys and a group of men began to walk the bodies along the deck
