Calling Nurse Lorrie — Isabel Stewart Way

Several years ago when Lorrie Archer was in nurses' training, she fell in love with and planned to marry Rod Beatty, then a resident whose dark good looks made Lorrie, who thought her brown eyes and curls not anything extraordinary, the envy of all the other nurses. Then Rod met Ann, Lorrie's beautiful blonde sister…and that ended the engagement.

After a year or so of marriage, Rod and Ann had a baby girl Donna. Rod became a successful surgeon, and Lorrie ran into him occasionally at Bayside Memorial Hospital, still experiencing an aching twings at the sight of him. Ann, Lorrie knew, was a selfish woman, and Rod might not be as happy as he had hoped to be, but Lorrie tried to avoid them as best she could.

One night Donna's babysitter rushed into Emergency with Donna, who had developed a severe ear infection. Ann was party-hopping, and Rod was at an out-of-town meeting, so Lorrie, as the closet relative, agreed that the necessary operation be performed. Mike John, the big blond resident doctor, handled everything skillfully, and Donna was resting comfortably when Ann and Rod -- who had returned to town early -- burst in, demanding explanations and causing a near showdown.

For Lorrie, this was the beginning of an awareness of another man besides Rod; for Rod, this was the rekindling of buried feelings for Lorrie. And whether Lorrie could resolve the conflict of her emotions toward Mike and Rod was something that seemed to torment her endlessly.