But Matthew persists, forcing the bottle from the nurse and into his hands, where he cradles it like a lifeline.
"Perhaps you could give us a minute?" Mrs Ramsay suggests to the staff, aware that the conversation her two boys need to have is not something that should be overheard by the doctor and his orderlies. Right or wrong, many would consider the love between the Sergeant and his Captain to be immoral and illegal. "You can see he's no danger."
The doctor seems unconvinced, but he knows when a battle is lost. Leaving Matthew with the laudanum, he vacates the room with his staff.
"But you don't know me," Matthew continues to look less than happy, fiddling absently with the top of the laudanum bottle. "You don't even know my name."
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"Perhaps you could give us a minute?" Mrs Ramsay suggests to the staff, aware that the conversation her two boys need to have is not something that should be overheard by the doctor and his orderlies. Right or wrong, many would consider the love between the Sergeant and his Captain to be immoral and illegal. "You can see he's no danger."
The doctor seems unconvinced, but he knows when a battle is lost. Leaving Matthew with the laudanum, he vacates the room with his staff.
"But you don't know me," Matthew continues to look less than happy, fiddling absently with the top of the laudanum bottle. "You don't even know my name."