Keeping Secrets
“Beside her, the baby, who had been awake for most of the night, slept now as if he would never wake again, flat on his stomach, head to one side, full-lipped mouth open a little, fists clenched. A big baby, born after what seemed to Hilda now like a battle, raging through her, threatening to tear her apart, stringing her up in the end in stirrups, somewhere far away watching it all, thinking helplessly: this can’t be happening to me. Now, two days later, lying in his crib, the baby looked like ...a different creature from the one belonging to the woman in the next bed, a tiny little girl called Daisy, with a thatch of dark hair. Hilda’s son had almost no hair, and no name yet, either: she was unable to decide on one. She vaguely supposed that she was in a kind of shock.
The ward was hot and sunny – far too hot, especially in the afternoons, when the mothers were supposed to rest, before visiting time. For the babies’sake the central heating was still on, and the high windows overlooking the main road on one side and the car park on the other opened, as in the college, only at the top.MoreLess
The ward was hot and sunny – far too hot, especially in the afternoons, when the mothers were supposed to rest, before visiting time. For the babies’sake the central heating was still on, and the high windows overlooking the main road on one side and the car park on the other opened, as in the college, only at the top.MoreLess
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