Jill Nolan's Choice — Adeline McElfresh

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER

Why, Jill asked herself, had she left Bradburn Memorial Hospital to work in the wild and open backwoods country?

Was it because she had felt unsure of her love for Giff? Had she hoped, during the year that she would be away from his operating table and his kisses, to test their love?

And was that, she though uneasily, the reason she could turn to Clay Ramsdell so easily -- because she did not, truly and deeply, love Giff?

Yes, Jill thought, absence makes the heart grow fonder…but of whom?