Another Update
2nd June 1916
Dear Roland
Here is your treat then. A letter from me, that I hope you shall enjoy so I will do my best to make you feel loved, wanted and most of all missed. Missed beyond measure and not just by me. By everyone actually, with the few exceptions of Margaret and Soper. A lot of the staff miss having you around. The nurses say that the hospital was a lot better when Colonel Brett was here. We now have Pubright as our Commanding Officer, and ruling overlord. He had decided to draft in more surgeons for the hospital, including the outspoken Major Yelland, much to Captain Gillian's annoyance. Remember the last Mess Dinner? Every single person in the hospital managed to find out. With the two of them at the same field hospital it will be an absolute disaster. Fights all over the place and most likely ending in a surgeon getting fired. I will let Pubright make his own mistakes though. He would not listen to me anyway. He has not as yet, decided to put a leash on me but I am expecting it any day now. The surgeons also miss you. You were a great inspiration to them Roland. They looked up to you, slightly like a father to them. Someone who guided them through the times that they needed help.
Most of all, and I think that you must know this in your heart, I miss you. I wish you could have stayed here making a real difference to more than just your patients. I miss you as much as you say you miss me. Maybe even more if that is possible. I would not know what to do if I lost you, to this God-forsaken conflict. I would not be able to just go on. When Amar died I felt a sense of loss, but I managed to carry on without him. If I heard about your death then I would not be able to carry on like I have done before.
Margaret has laid off a little from her rumouring but she and Soper still seem to be up to something. I try not to listen to the hospital gossip but she still spreads her poison through the VAD's who repeat it once again to the nursing staff and some of the patients. She seems intent on tainting my name and yours in the process. She does not seem to care who she seem to care who she hurts, in the way of getting what she wants. I expect that she will try to take the position of Matron out from under me, by telling her rumour to Pubright. It does worry me but I shall fight hr every step of the way if I have to. I will not let her get her hands on any evidence that would incriminate us. I shall draw strength from these letters if I have to. You are only a letter away and I shall keep that in my mind.
Please write to me and tell me what the new hospital is like and I shall write to you about my life here.
Your Grace
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