Young Frances Dorland was in the Preliminary Training School at St. Martha's Hospital when she sheltered from a country thunder-storm with a stranger — a gentle, kindly man who reminded her of her favourite uncle and whom she labelled 'the Professor'. That chance meeting resulted in an undemanding friendship that proved a constant source of help to Frances and her nursing friends in their harassed, hectic lives as 'first-years'. Whatever their problem, the cry would go up, "Francis, ask your Professor!" She was to remember that when she learnt the truth about him ...

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