Chapter 45: A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
As usual, the Wynnes had come through for Edmund in ways he could never hope to repay, that they deem to be nothing and no trouble at all.
What must it be like to carry authority and power as simply as one carries one’s own body from one destination to another? To be so confident in one’s own abilities and position that grand gestures become quaint and small gestures become everything?
Edmund doubts he’d ever fully understand.
After the annoyance at the hospital almost a month prior, Edmund had more than proven himself to the board by not only being remarkably steady and confident with a scalpel, but by thoughtlessly employing some of Aures’ coined methods.