“Yes sister.” Ellen said hesitantly and cursed Jennifer for gossiping about her.
“Good. Go to the kitchen with nurse Lisa to prepare tea and toast for the patients. The Kitchen staff are having some emergency and because of the banquet tonight most of them are on leave. Come on hurry up nurse Ellen, get a move on and when you have finished report to staff nurse Cynthia and help with the medicines.”
“Yes sister.”
For the next few hours she was busy preparing the tea and arranging the toasts and also sliced the cakes and distributed it among the patients as she went around the ward with nurse Lisa.
Ellen paused beside one of the grumpy patients Mr. Jones’s bed. He did not have any visitors that day and was huddled beneath the blankets his eyes closed. She was concerned about him because
