title: Practical Marriage
author: Darcy, Lilian
description: Having left Melbourne to avoid her mother's matchmaking.
  Sister Elspeth More 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 relationship 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 respond to Lachlan ...