''A visitor?'' I said.
Nurse Spiller folded her arms. ''Don''t want him, then? Shall I send him home?'' She looked at Nurse Bacon, who was still rubbing her knuckles and wincing. ''Bad?'' she said.
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Nurse Spiller tutted. I said again,
''A visitor? For me?''
She yawned. ''For Mrs Rivers, anyway. Are you her today, or not?''
I did not know. But I rose, on shaking legs, feeling the blood rush from my heart—for if the visitor was a man then I could only think that, whether I was Maud, or Sue, or whoever I was, he must be Gentleman. My world had shrunk to that point, that I only knew that I had been harmed, and that he had done it. I looked at Miss