THE Physick Book OF Deliverance Dane
A Novel
Chapter One
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Late April
1991
"It would appear that we are nearly out of time," announced
Manning Chilton, one glittering eye fixed on the thin pocket watch
chained to his vest. He surveyed the other four faces that ringed the conference
table. "But we are not quite done with you yet, Miss Goodwin."
Whenever Chilton felt especially pleased with himself his voice became
ironic, bantering: an incongruous affectation that grated on his graduate
students. Connie picked up on the shift in his voice immediately, and she
knew then that her qualifying examination was finally drawing to a close. A
sour hint of nausea bubbled up in the back of her throat, and she swallowed.
The other professors on the panel smiled back at Chilton.
Through her anxiety, Connie Goodwin felt a flutter of satisfaction tingle
somewhere in her chest, and she permitted herself to bask in the sensation
for a moment. If she had to guess, she would ... read full excerpt from The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane ebook
