Upstairs, Robert gathered Jill up in his arms. ‘Thank heavens you’re all right.’ He looked up anxiously. ‘She is okay now, Doctor?’
‘Pulse and heartbeat back to normal, I’m glad to say. Mind you, my advice is to take it easy in the next few days, until the effects wear off.’
‘Have you told her …?’
The doctor nodded his head sombrely. ‘Yes, just before you came. She was very lucky, if you ask me. It could have been far worse,’ he mused aloud. ‘My guess is that she might have got in someone’s way, in view of what’s been happening.’
Jill buried her head in Robert’s shoulder and sobbed. ‘And there I was being so beastly about her. What must you think of me? Oh, Robert, I feel awful,’ she wept in a fresh outburst.
‘Now then, take it easy, you weren’t to know,’ he consoled her. ‘What can we
