She looked down at the documents I had brought.
“Why refuse it if she wanted you to have it?”
I had thought about that question many times.
“Because I don’t want her final gift to become the reason people question every moment I spent caring for her. And because I need to know that whatever happens to my career, it won’t be because I tried to profit from a patient.”
Nora read the lawyer’s notice, then the refusal paperwork.
She checked the dates carefully.
“This doesn’t prove you didn’t know,” she said.
“No. It shows when I received formal notice and what I did afterward.”
She sat back.
“People will think I’m taking your side if I tell the hospital that I helped with the wedding.”
“You can tell them your concerns. You should. But you can also tell them what you witnessed and what you didn’t know.”
She stared at me for a long time.
