Refugee Nurse — Ruth McCarthy Sears

To blonde Connie Costello, having grown up in a Miami orphanage had its advantages, but it had its drawbacks, too. For one thing, she had never been accepted by her childhood sweetheart's prominent family; for another, she and her sister, Maria -- now a nun -- knew nothing about their background except that they were Cuban refugees.

These thoughts were uppermost in Connie's mind one cloudy day as she drove out to St. Anne's Catholic Orphanage. For Dr. Jonathan St. John was home again after the untimely death of his wife, and Connie wondered whether their old relationship could ever be revived and if he would be working at St. John's Hospital, too.

Jonathan's return did bode some good, for the hospital, at least. His takeover restored the private hospital to its proper function of caring for the sick and the self-indulgent. Connie saw little of him, however. Her attentions had been caught up with handsome Rick Arnaz, a sometime pilot who aided in bringing the refugees over to Miami. Rick was convinced that Connie was a Castilian, not a Cuban, and he set out to prove this.

Mathers are brought to a dramatic and surprising climax when Maria goes to Rochester to study music and Connie accompanies her. For it is in Rochester that Connie finds the happiness she so richly deserves.