Ozark Nurse

Although for most busy nurses, the pressure of an intensive hospital routine is demandingly wearing, to Nora Hilton, beset at home by the demands of a selfish and irresponsible family, the hospital meant rest and relaxation. She loved her work, and she also loved Dr. Paul Anderson with whom she worked. This made Nora vulnerable when the doctor, suddenly unsure of his surgical skill and on the point of quitting his profession in despair, turned away from her and seemingly shut her out of his life. For now she had neither anchor nor ballast, and no solace for those hours not spent in nursing. Under the circumstances, the prospect of marriage with a lonely patient seemed rather attractive, yet Nora wondered if it would really solve even her own problem, much less Paul's and her family's.