A/N Thank you so much for your lovely reviews, here's something from Matron Grace's POV because I adore her
Grace tries to keep an eye on all her nurses really and she likes to think she's pretty aware of what's going on. She knows there's more to Sister Livesey than she's telling and she knew even before the letters that Trevelyan was hiding something. Truth be told, she doesn't think anyone here isn't hiding something.
Except for the Scot. Captain Gillan may not be the most talkative of men but when he says something he means it and this causes his words to have weight to them. Unlike his friend Miles who can chatter on for days without saying anything, Captain Gillan will often say absolutely nothing at all and still make you aware of his feelings simply by the way he is standing. She knows that they are lucky to have such a good surgeon even if at first she found him a little cold and clinical. He's not got the social advantages the other officers have used and yet he's still made it this far and for that he has to be admired.
He's not a ladies man, she doesn't think she's ever had to talk to him about what is considered inappropriate behaviour or even warn her nurses about him. She's had to do both with Miles and it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. But Captain Gillan and Trevelyan have been worrying her. They may not have raised any eyebrows yet but if they become any more obvious, she'll have to talk to him about being a little more discreet. She shouldn't think he's ever been in love before and it's clearly written all over his face if only you know what to look for. Trevelyan's a little more of a mystery. She's good at hiding what she thinks and she's also got her own family problems. Grace thinks that she might be a little more wary about giving her heart away than Captain Gillan has been.
It was bound to happen. Bringing young, well-bred women into the camp set off so many alarm bells in her head but they did need the help and there was no other way to get it. Sister Quayle may have thought they could manage without them, indeed, she seemed to think they were worse off now than before but Grace knew that her nurses needed all the help they could get, even if it was someone only qualified to wash bandages and change sheets. With the lack of available women, the men were panting for fresh objects of affection and when she'd seen the VADs she'd known there would be trouble. She's amazed, actually that there hasn't been more. They're all pretty in their own way and soldiers do tend to fall for the women who look after them. She's even had a few herself… but she hadn't really thought of the other medical staff. The doctors are all unattached but she doesn't think of them as people with feelings, the patients are the ones who matter, the ones who have a right to feel things, doctors should be removed from all emotion in order to do their job properly. That's what Sister Quayle would say. But Grace knows that Sister Quayle's unfeeling manner is part of what made Roland pass her over for the job of Matron. Sister Quayle is a good nurse, one of the best, but one can't help feeling a coldness in her smile that is quite chilling to think about.
So it appears that doctors, even dour Scottish ones, can have feelings and of course he had to go and fall for the troublesome provocative one. She doesn't quite know what has happened between them but she resolves to keep an eye on them. At least if she does that, she'll have a chance of warning them if they're becoming obvious. It's no fun being the object of gossip, she knows that as much as she would suspect Trevelyan does.