The Fever Tree And Other Stories (1982)
“As a child she would strike people who annoyed her and when she was fourteen she attacked her sister with a knife, though no harm was done. But if her hands itched to injure, they were also gifted hands and as she was taught to occupy them with handicrafts, the impulse to violence grew less. Or was sublimated, as she learned to say when she began training to be a nurse.
Only her mother had opposed Alice’s choice of a career. Perhaps it was only her mother who understood her. But her objections ...were overruled by Alice’s father, her headmistress, the school careers officer and Alice herself. And certainly Alice did well. There were no unfortunate incidents of the kind Mrs Gibson had feared.
Naturally, in her new life, she had had to abandon her handicrafts. One cannot keep a loom or a potter’s wheel in one’s room in the nurses’ residence. And there were many occasions when Alice would come off duty worn-out, not so much from lifting patients, making beds and running to and fro, as from the exercise of an iron self-control.MoreLess
Only her mother had opposed Alice’s choice of a career. Perhaps it was only her mother who understood her. But her objections ...were overruled by Alice’s father, her headmistress, the school careers officer and Alice herself. And certainly Alice did well. There were no unfortunate incidents of the kind Mrs Gibson had feared.
Naturally, in her new life, she had had to abandon her handicrafts. One cannot keep a loom or a potter’s wheel in one’s room in the nurses’ residence. And there were many occasions when Alice would come off duty worn-out, not so much from lifting patients, making beds and running to and fro, as from the exercise of an iron self-control.MoreLess
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