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It was a week before the hospital nurse could be dispensed with--a wasted week to John Marwood. Only on rare occasions had he seen his wife alone--and never the doctor. Whenever Daventry had been the nurse had remained in the room, which had necessitated his bottling up his verbal arrows, or so disguising them that they had lost half their sting.
He had tried congratulating Daventry once on the success of the operation, in a way which only just veiled the innuendo underneath, but the result had not been a success.