Strange Loyalties // Doctor's Love

"A woman driver, of course!" had been Dr. Richard Guyse's impatient inward comment as he braked and swerved to avoid a collision with the open car door of the unknown but attractive young girl. He wondered briefly who she was and then promptly forgot her.

That was a trick of mind training on which Doctor Guyse prided himself. He could always switch his concentration to the important details of his busy doctor's life -- yesterday's operation, today's X-ray, tomorrow's problematical new case -- to the exclusion of everything else.

Doctor Guyse did not know it then, but his meeting with Lysbet Marlowe was the beginning of a strange disturbance in his powers of concentration."