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his home phone number in case of emergencies. The new message said he’d be out of town all weekend and referred all calls to Dr. Brining in nearby Lambertville. He had told her and Lois, when he first took over his new practice, that he’d be out of town every other weekend “until further notice.”
    She had joked to Lois that he was probably sneaking away to be alone with a mirror. Now she couldn’t help wondering if he was keeping a tryst with Louise.
    â€œWhat do I care?” she said out loud, ignoring her novel.
    â€œServes each of them right.”
    In fact she hoped they were an item: Dr. Dry-As-Dust and his toothy little profit princess. They could breed a bunch of perky and pretty little snobs to carry on their narcissism.
    When it came to cattle breeds Hazel was sharp as a dagger. But when it came to judging men, Rebecca decided, Hazel was too easily tricked by a pleasing exterior. No question John Saville looked like a young Greek god. Unfortunately, like Dr. Brian Gage he had an ego far bigger than his heart.

Five
    â€œO ur young doctor looks plenty tuckered out,” Lois confided to Rebecca shortly after the office had opened on Monday morning. “And he’s got two surgeries scheduled today. Have you caught wind of the story Edna Beck’s been peddling?”
    Rebecca, busy preparing a pickup for the lab courier, only nodded. No doubt the John and Louise rumor had already raced through the valley. She tried not to succumb to a sudden flaring of irritation at yet another reminder that poor girls who drove used cars were not marriageworthy for the great doctor.
    â€œGood,” she retorted, not even bothering to lower her voice. “I hope they boffed like bunnies the entire weekend. Maybe that’ll take some of the meanness out of him.”
    Lois, who was adding toner to the office printer, looked askance at her co-worker. Rebecca had been snappish and out of sorts ever since she arrived. Luckily John Saville’sfirst patient today was Lauren Ulrick, a motormouth who never let anyone get in a word edgewise—even from the nearby exam room the doctor wouldn’t likely overhear Rebecca’s caustic barbs.
    â€œLet me guess,” Lois told the younger woman. “You had a disastrous date on Friday night?”
    â€œActually the entire weekend was a washout,” Rebecca informed her. “All I got out of it was two days older.”
    â€œYou can afford two days,” Lois assured her. “To me you’re still a junior miss. Just wait till you’re staring down the road at forty, baby-cakes. It stares right back.”
    Yeah, Rebecca thought disconsolately.
    At the rate she was going, she’d be the town’s resident old maid by forty. She could just see her pathetic personal ad in Valley Singles: “Middle-aged virgin desperately seeks any more-or-less desirable man.”
    Lois studied her friend’s preoccupied face and gave her an encouraging pat on the shoulder.
    â€œCheer up. Romance is a wheel of fortune—after it spins you down, it has nowhere to go but right back up.”
    â€œIt sure takes a long time to revolve,” Rebecca carped as she disappeared into the stock room to finish the quarterly drug inventory.
    However, between entries on her clipboard, her mind kept returning to one thought like a tongue to a chipped tooth: John Saville on Friday night, the way he looked and moved and his manner with her—he had seemed almost…dangerous and exciting, far different from the humorless and rigid man she worked with.
    Thinking of him, however, naturally brought her mind back to Louise Wallant. It was probably true about the two of them being involved. Involved in what —a casual affair or something more than that—she wasn’t very clear about. Whatever it might be, it certainly wasn’t her business. He had been very closemouthed to her and Lois about thoseweekends when he wouldn’t