Nurse Susan Martin, in the operating room of Mercy Hospital, was there not as a nurse but as a patient, paralyzed from a crushed spine. Dr Levy, the chief surgeon leans above her, his kind old eyes trying to disguise what they both knew - that she was dying. Where, she wondered, was David? Hurt too in the automobile accident? Dead? She tries to say his name but only a dry sound struggles from her throat before the pain relief drugs claims her...