The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-09-26
AN ABSORBING NOVEL :.

CHAPTER Kate Fuller, beautiful and
competent young woman doctor arrives
at Peoples Hospital in Riverdale to begin
her internship. She meets DR.. Scott Ken
yon. who has bitter dislike for all
women doctors, and learns of quarrel
between Scott and DR.. Benjamin Smith,
head of the hospital and an old friend
who secured her appointment at Peoples.
She also meets DR.. Albert Warren, resi-
dent physician, and Nurse Laura Dunlap.
Both of them resent her being at Peo-
pies.
CHAPTER II-Scott Kenyon is River
dale's most popular bachelor and a brill
liant doctor. He dislikes women doctors
because he believes they will aot stick
to their work, but will marry and leave
after training. On the evening Kate ar
rives at Peoples, Scott goes home and
quarrels violently with his sister, Edith,
over his prejudice.
CHAPTER III-Meanwhile, at the hos
pital Kate again meets her friend, DR..
Smith, who tries to explain SCOTS dislike
for women doctors and why he had tried
to stop her appointment to Peoples. kate,
however, can not forget his rudeness
when she first arrived. Later, Kate meets
her roommate, Virginia Perry, student
is diveded into two camps, over the ap-
pointment of woman intern.
CHAPTER Tv-vaginia Perry tells Kate
she is madly in love with Dudley Page,
coach at Riverdale Academy, and that
Virginia's brother, Leonard, is the aca-
emy's football star. Kate is worried over
her reception at the hospital but forgets
it when she is invited to dinner at DR..
Smiths. 1t proves to be a memorable &C.
casion.
CHAPTER V-At Dr. Smiths dinner
party, Kate meets Dudley Page and Iea-
Lies he doesn't love Virginia. He is using
on his football team. But more important,
Kate meets Dr.. Harry Blake, handsome
and married to an older woman. He
forces his attentions upon Kate.
CHAPTER vI-The dinner turns into
humiliating affair after Scott arrives.
Kate had not known he was invited And
he thought, she planned it with the hos
tess, Mrs. Smith, in an attempt to get
into his good graces. BY the time the
party is over Kate and Scott are enc
mics. And Dr.. Blake's wife, Grace, is
jealous Of Kate.
CHAPTER VU-During the next few
days Kate becomes interested in Dickie
Bonardi, a child patient at the hospital
and tries to help him. He is Dr. Blake's
patent. While trying to get DR.. Blake to
take more interest in the case he tries
to make love to her. Laura Dunlap, the
nurse sees them. The first gossip starts
about Kate.
CHAPTER VII1-Kate, in an effort to
help Dickie, calls upon his parents and
recommends they consult Scott Kenyon,
Although she doesn't say SO, Kate rea-
Lies tht DR.. Blake is incompetent and
knows nothing about child diseases.
CHAPTER x-A few DAYS later Kate
attends a lecture Scott gives every wees
to student nurses. She sees him after
wards and tells him Of Dickie's sickness
ana her visit to his parents She asks
ms help He tells her she is presumptious
ana refuses to help her with the child.
CHAPTER x-During the following week
Kate is deeply troubled by the antagon-
Ism displayed by others on the star at
PEOPLES. Then, one day while Kate is a..
tending Dickie, DR.. Blake arrives Aps as,
ne makes love to her and this time she
mus him. DR.. Smith arrives and orders
sake from the room. That evening
sake tells his wife, Grace. that DR.
emltn and Kate are having an affair.
CHAPTER xT-Grace Blake. because NJ
nef money, runs the academy and is IN
Ene hospital boardh She is a friend ~
1 d., smiths wife. Edith Kenyon, and Alice
Wciio W t,, OF the academy headmaster.
auction, Gracerepeats the gossip her nus.
pane invented. That bit Of gossip then
eIarIS Inc ROUNDS OF the community,
CHAPTER xIT-By September the hos
pltal rift and the gossip about Kate is
last approaching a climax. At the Sta
OF football practice, Grace Blake de-
mands that Scott be removed as team
physician and her incompetent husband
Harry, put in his place. George FAN
neadmaster at the Academy, objects but
is forced to comply.
CHAPTER xIu-Because DR.. Smiths
wife is in the hospital, Kate goes to her
old friends home and cooks him a din
ner. While they are eating someone
throws rock through the dining room
window to which is attached a crude
and insulting note. Kate knows some
thing must be done if she is to stay at
Peoples.
CHAPTER XTV-That evening, Virginia
Perrv's brother. Leonard, comes to Kate S
window and tells her he knows that Dud-
ley Page is not in love with his sister.
Just after he leaves, Laura Dunlap in
vades Hates room demanding to know
who the man is she overheard talking
to Kate. Thus more gossip is added to
the flame against aKte.