Country Club Nurse

She was known as Nurse Sanders at the Club where only the super rich and most famous people were allowed to become members. How could she get Captain Joseph Mackenzie to realize that she could never be one of them?

They were the glamorous super-rich–could she help heal their broken lives?

Caring for an overindulged young socialite at the wealthy Chanticleer Club, Nurse Erda Sanders soon finds a new romance among “the beautiful people” — as well as plots and counterplots threatening not only her principles but lives!

A few things…

  • My niece, Elisabeth, is getting married tomorrow. If you want to find me at the reception tomorrow night, I’ll be the dashing, devil-may-care playboy standing in the parking lot with a white, double-breasted dinner jacket, a cravat, and slack arms.

  • A according to a 2005 report from the Internal Revenue Service, you need to earn at least $100.3 million in Adjusted Gross Income to be counted among the “super-rich.”

  • Noted without comment: Chanticleer.

  • And, finally, I leave you with an early draft of a song by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

Erda

The most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard.
Erda, Erda, Erda, Erda…

All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Erda, Erda, Erda, Erda…
Erda, Erda…

Erda!
I’ve just met a girl named Erda,
And suddenly the name
Will never be the same
To me.

Erda!
I’ve just kissed a girl named Erda,
And suddenly I’ve found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!
Erda!
Say it loud and there’s music playing —
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying —
Erda…
I’ll never stop saying
Erda!

Erda —
Say it loud and there’s music playing —
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying —
Erda —
I’ll never stop saying Erda!
The most beautiful sound I ever herd —
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrda.