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the
expensive brown suit, shook her head.
    “ Not just
yet, I think there’s somebody here that Lady Harriet would very
much like to meet.” She introduced a tall fleshy man with a red
face and hair with too much product. “Lord Darley” said her mother
triumphantly, and the man stepped forward and reached out to touch
Harry’s arm.
    Chris watched the colour
drain from her face and moved forward quickly to catch her. He
lifted her up effortlessly and stepped out through a flap in the
canvas back to the makeshift car park. “Where is your car?” Libby
asked him, and he gestured to the scruffy old sedan he had bought
at university and never updated.
    “ The keys are
in my jacket pocket.” He told her, and she unlocked the door and
stepped back so that he could place Harry in the passenger
seat.
    “ Shall I take
off your braces?” Chris asked her.
    “ No I’ll do
it.” Her sister said protectively, “can you get her a
drink?”
    Chris stepped back into
the tent, where an anxious man found him and introduced himself as
Harry’s father.
    “ Is that the
surgeon?” Libby asked with a grin. Harry nodded, breathing a sigh
of relief as her head stopped spinning.
    “ That’s
doctor gorgeous, he almost kissed me last night.”
    “ Well make
sure he kisses you tonight.” Libby told her firmly, and smiled at
Chris as he came back into view and handed her the
glass.
    “ Harry I’m so
very sorry, I should have stepped in sooner.” said her father, his
distress obvious.
    “ It’s okay
dad.” Harry said, smiling with a conviction that faded when her
mother stalked into view.
    “ Hurry up
Harriet there are more people for you to meet.” Her mother said
firmly.
    “ Mother she’s
got a bad cold and she can’t stand for long periods of time.” Libby
protested.
    “ And yet she
does,” her mother replied, “Harriet you are a beautiful woman and
you have an important title, but you’re never going to meet a
husband sitting around in that wheelchair.”
    “ I think she
might.” Libby said with a grin, then added more forcefully. “I’m
going to ask Chris to take her home.”
    “ Is that
really what you want Harriet.”
    “ Yes.” Harry
said softly, and looked up at her mother. “I can’t go back in
there,” she added unsteadily, and just for a second her mother’s
expression softened.
    “ Okay then
Harriet.” Lady Caroline looked at her for a moment longer, then she
turned on her elegant heel and walked back to the marquee with her
husband and Libby walking behind her. Harry watched them go, she
shifted uncomfortably in the unfamiliar car and thought longingly
of her sofa.
    Chris climbed into the
car beside her and touched her face again. She felt the tingle even
through her tiredness and distress. “Thank you for rescuing me.”
She said, her eyes curving into the smile that he loved.
    “ Anytime.”
His blue eyes held hers and his voice was low and intense. “I’d
rescue you whenever needed.”
    She finished her drink
and cleared her throat. “That’s good to know.” She told
him.
    “ Now shall I
take you home?”
    “ Actually can
you take me back to the hospital? My chair is still
there.”
    “ Of course.”
he cut comfortably into the traffic and navigated the roads back
into town. Harry leant her head back against the seat and Chris
looked across at her, savouring her presence in his car.
    “ Thanks
again.” she said with a smile.
    “ It's a
pleasure. You know I was wondering, there are some really good
places for a drink round here, do you want to stop?”
    Harry shifted
uncomfortably on her seat, “Do you mind if we just go back to the
hospital?”
    “ Of course
not.” He cut past the park where they had spent the evening and
couldn't help adding. “Lord Darley looked extremely pleased to see
you.”
    “ I know. His
mother was a couple of years above my mother at the same school. He
joined the army but that didn't work out, and he stayed at our
house over the summer after my