Chapter 376

• Gaston
• He stared at his wife as she lay, a slight figure on the hospital bed. She had fainted in the corridor on hearing about Paddy and had been brought there. Seeing Claude sporting a thick bandage and lording it about in the corridor had only added to her distress, caught as she was totally unawares, for he had skipped telling her about their rash son and his actions.
• Although she was showing signs of coming to, she looked so tiny and white as she lay there, helpless, vulnerable…