Homecoming Nurse // Whitebridge Nurse — Rose Dana

Jane Weaver had left Whitebridge on her honeymoon, and when her marriage ended unhappily, she went to work as a nurse in Boston rather than return to her hometown. Then she learned that the hospital in Whitebridge where her father practiced might be closing, and Jane felt duty-bound to support him. But homecoming was difficult, and when she tried to take up the threads of her old life she found that they had subtly changed.

Two years before Jane Weaver had left Whitebridge on her honeymoon: when her marriage ended unhappily, she went to work as a nurse in Boston rather than return to the home town where her romance had started and where she would be constantly reminded of it. Then she learned that the Benson Memorial Hospital in Whitebridge, where her doctor father carried on his profession, was being threatened by the Town Council, which refused to vote the funds to continue its operation.

Sine the doctor's whole life--past, present and future--was bounded and circumscribed by Benson Hospital, Jane felt it her duty to rally round her parent, at whatever cost to herself. The homecoming was difficult; and when she tried to take up the threads of her old life, she found they had subtly changed to make a new and unexpected pattern.