CHAPTER NINETEENFleur had felt desperately shy at the thought of meeting Sir Norman again.
But she need not have worried, need not have spent agonising hours wondering what she would say to him and planning how she could reopen the subject of their marriage and make him understand once and for all that it was impossible.
Events then prevented them from seeing each other alone. To begin with two important officials from the Ministry of Aircraft Production arrived to stay unexpectedly and absorbed every moment of Sir Norman’s time.
Then Cynthia became worse, doctors came and went, specialists from London had to be given meals at odd hours, Nurses fluttered about the house, looking in their starched aprons and white caps like agitated doves.
Fleur found herself run off her feet, especiall
