The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

“The habit of nagging, let me assure you, goes with a nurse no matter what she does.”

“You kn-know, we Protestants believe in feeling our guilt and not just paying it off with a few routine prayers.”

Perhaps they were friends as men so often became friends; all gruffness and no light conversation, only a shared and wordless understanding.

Later Eve wished she had hugged Violette. She wished that very much.

“You know what they say about Scotsmen,” I managed to say. “They’re all liars.” “That’s Irishmen. No blarney about a Scot.”