CHAPTER XIN
EXT day Leslie went to town, to work at the office, sleep at her flat, work again next day and come down by the usual afternoon train. Lydia spent a useful morning in the convalescent hospital, helping Nurse Poulter in the wards. Matron had not forgotten Lydia’s wish to do full-time work, but what with a scare of chickenpox and Matron going away for a fortnight nothing had been settled. The chickenpox had turned out, as in the case of Master Peppercorn at Southbridge School, to be a rash; Matron had returned from her holiday, but for several days was inaccessible while she dealt with papers and patients and gathered the reins once more into her capable hands. Meanwhile, Lydia had been giving a hand when wanted and otherwise found plenty to do in the garden and in entertaining
