Chapter 21
Duchy of Aragoni
Marco
BOTH OF MY GUESTS seemed to be lost in thought as we walked down the corridor from Dani’s room. I stopped at the nurses’ station long enough to tell the nurse on duty that Dani was ready for a sedative. “Thank you, Doctor,” she said. “I’ll take care of it.”
In the elevator, Mrs. Rosati said, “I keep forgetting that you’re a doctor, Marco. Do you have a specialty?”
“Internal medicine,” I said, “or as they used to say, I’m a general practitioner.”
“I suppose that makes it difficult for you when someone close to you is seriously ill. I mean, being a doctor you are more aware of what can happen than others would be.”
“That’s a very astute observation, and you’re absolutely right. Where a layperson remains optimistic, a doctor tries to be optimistic but
