A Practical Marriage

Having left Melbourne to avoid her mother's matchmaking, Sister Elspeth Moore was disappointed to realise after six months that she wasn't happy working on the men's medical ward in a Darwin hospital. Meeting Dr Lachlan McLintock, she became aware again that she only seemed able to make friends, not lovers, in her relationships with men. It came as a complete shock when Lachlan proposed. That this was prompted by the need for a nurse in the Outback somehow didn't offend Elspeth. Both of them had practical needs to fulfil, so why shouldn't their marriage have a businesslike basis? Except that becoming lovers tilted Elspeth's emotional response to Lachlan...