to the nurses. I said,

    I  stay  make me.

    Cant  it?

    But take!

    Nurse Bacon yawned and rolled s enough.

    My name aint Maud, I ansell you? It aint Maud Rivers!

    S Nurse Bacons eye. ? S, by the hour.

    Nurse Bacon put o hem.

    Dont care to speak nicely? s t a suation as a nurse. See . Spoil e little hough.

    Still rubbing  , s mine. I gazed  them behind my back. I said,

    I only got e to a lady. It  lady t tricked me. I—

    Maid to a lady! t t take t plenty girls suppose t one t t s novel, t is. e so put you in tch.

    I stamped my foot.

    For fucks sake! I cried.

    t stopped t  me again about t as before—t so  t and gave a cry. Betty, t girl, began to moan.

    t tors due, any minute.

    S me stagger a straigors o t to Betty, to bully  of ears. to the old woman.

    You finisening your buttons, you creature! sake your  your moutant.  I told you a imes, you s, and c know why I warn you, we should all be glad if you did . . .

    I looked at t it open, and I  from t to

    ours—and t  meant tors were coming.

    And I t, after all, t I ster case for myself in standing and talking quietly ie, t s. I moved close to my bed, putting my knee to it to keep my leg from trembling; and I felt for my o tidy it—forgetting, for t, t titc to my  off, running. t of us stood in silence, listening out for tors footsteps. Nurse Spiller s me.

    You congue, you trollop, she said.

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