Madeline felt that she was on the brink of a completely new life when she left England to do a year’s nursing in a great Montreal hospital.

But she found that, after all, she would not be totally among strangers, for she had already met on board ship — though he was said to be so unapproachable — Dr. Lanyon, a distinguished member of the staff; and one of the patients would be the beautiful (but very difficult) Mrs. Sanders whom she had nursed before, with her good-looking and attentive son among the visitors. Still, everything else — except her familiar, well-loved work — would be excitingly new, and she might even have occasion to work for Dr. Lanyon…