The Nurse's Dilemma — Vera Cleaver

Jean Wheaton, with her mane of straight silver-blonde hair and the gold-tipped lashes that lent an innocence to the brown eyes, found aristocratic Dr. Stephen Templeton attractive. But Jean was being dated by Peter Blake, in Pathology, and eventually, she supposed, she would marry Pete.

When Dr. Templeton, who paid no attention to the other nurses, began singling out Jean for his attentions -- at first, casual invitations to dinner, then flowers -- Jean's roommate was sure that the very correct young doctor had decided that Jean would make him a good wife. But Jean pooh-poohed the idea. Still, when she found that the doctor would be alone on Christmas Day, she invited him to spend the day in Filbert Valley.

Jean knew at once that having Steve Templeton meet her family was a mistake. Anyone who visited the Wheaton's was treated as a member of the family -- and even Jean, used to their ways, could see that Steven was appalled by the table manners of the Wheaton's -- young and old -- and at their haphazard way of life. If Dr. Templeton had had any idea of asking Jean to be his wife, that day was the end of it.

Then two things happened. Pete demanded that Jean marry him at once -- and Jean turned him down. And scuttlebutt had it that Dr. Templeton was engaged to wealthy and beautiful Helen Harrison, a girl who could further any young doctor's career.