Cottage Hospital
 Her conscience told her she should marry even without love.

Sister Barbara Hughes was bitterly disappointed when she had to leave London's busy Royal Hospital for health reasons. Quite apart from the fact that she felt life in the little cottage hospital on the South Coast would be quiet and dull, there was the problem of leaving Daniel Marston, the Senior Surgical Registrar at the Royal.

But when she got to Sandleas, Barbara found life very different from what she had expected. Work at the hospital was engrossing and full of interest. And in Sandleas she began for the first time to get to know Geoffrey and to forget Daniel.