Chapter Eight
Sheila
“Good afternoon, Doctor Rostrom's office.” Sheila, the back-up reception secretary in Melinda's plush, center city office said into the phone.
“No, I'm sorry, the doctor is on bereavement leave due to her husband's recent death and I cannot make any appointments at this time.”
She paused while the caller made the usual complaints and pleas for her special case. Then Sheila said: “I can refer you to another surgeon if you wish. Doctor Herman Stein is handling Doctor Rostrom's current patients. I can give you his number if you wish.”
Sheila thought about the rather timely demise of Hank and how it had, in many respects, solved her problems in a way that she had not anticipated. It certainly settled the issue of the brief but torrid affair she and Hank had shared.
