With her thumb and index finger, she drew an imaginary line from one end of her closed lips to another, to mean that no word was going to get out. and stepped out almost immediately.
Once she was outside, she cast a glance at Elio and the junior nurse through the glass door and thought, 'maybe they are in love.'
She might not have been in so many relationships to justify this, but she knew that love makes one do crazy things, and the scene she was greeted with when she barged into Elio's ward was one of those crazy things.
Elio smiled at how well he had pulled the stunt and also at how he still had the charm that always got him all the ladies he wanted. It had gotten him the junior nurse and helped him get Nurse Dahlia to not spill about what she saw.
He wished his father was alive for him to make him understand that everything didn't have to be about making threats and fighting wars.
