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"I could send some of my men with you--"

"No, I don’t wantpeople about It’s part of the reason that I didn’t purchase passage for otherhere I didn’t want to run into soht have oing to call things off with hio to all this bother? No, all she needed was for Tristan to accos would become private between her and her fiancé Tristan would be expected to return to the ship Could he do it? Could he leave her in another ?

He was half tempted to kiss her now or to ask for an additional kiss for the service of delivering her safely through the streets If she hadn’t been looking at hiained As it was he could say little more than, "When do you want to leave?"

"Now"

"Good" Before he had any tie hishimself a bit ht of him? And if she used the opportunity to coe when they returned to the ship It was chilly out, he had his coat, and quite honestly, he wanted this done with "Let’s be off then"

After dise she handed the map to hiate the world, certainly understood the lines on a uide him But there were none out now, so he studied the scrawled lines and the scribbled words and the occasional arrow Florence Nightingale was s were not drawn to scale

Anne kept her hand on his arm From time to ti with nervousness He supposed after four years that shethis man If her fiancé was at the hospital, Tristan wondered if he was recovering froth of time Perhaps he was a physician who had stayed behind to help the people Maybe she had coland

He fought not to growl at the thought of the man on his ship

It seee of tio where she wished him to lead, and eventually they did reach the General Hospital At their arrival, the lethargy seemed to leave her and a purpose in her step took hold

As they came around to the front, she said with confidence, "This way"

A short distance aas a sign: British Ce as she passed through the entrance She strode past several raves until she came to an area that housed no headstones, where the land si blue waters of the Bosporus Strait