Sixty Years a Nurse by Mary Hazard

Author:Mary Hazard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

However, my eyes were soon to be opened in my second year, albeit with tragic consequences. There were two trainee nurses, a lovely Hungarian girl, called Suzan, with shoulder-length dark hair, and an English girl, called Brenda, with a short, brown cut, who were best friends. They did everything together, and were always eating in the canteen, working in the sluice, or folding sheets, with each other; they were inseparable. I took them completely at face value, being me. I had my good friend, Jenny, and also Hanse, and I was used to having sisters at home, with whom I was very close, so it made no odds to me to see women together all the time. I was used to home, the convent and now the hospital. Then one day, Jenny, who was very knowing, whispered to me, ‘There’s something up with those two, I’m sure there is,’ as I watched Suzan and Brenda walking down the corridor, very close, almost hand-in-hand, and chatting animatedly to each other – I really wondered what on earth she meant. ‘I’m sure they fancy each other,’ Jenny went on. ‘What do you mean, they fancy each other?’ I couldn’t understand what Jenny was getting at. ‘What?’ ‘How?’ I’d never heard such a ridiculous idea. ‘You know, like that,’ Jenny hinted, nudging me. ‘Just like a man and woman, but they are two girls.’ ‘Don’t be so ridiculous,’ I said, and started laughing. ‘I’ve never heard such a stupid thing in all my life. They’re just friends – close friends.’ ‘You mark my words,’ said Jenny, not to be put off from pressing her point. ‘You just watch them, they are not normal.’ So I did.

I began to notice little things: like I heard Brenda say to Suzan one day, ‘I’ve put a nice hot water bottle in your bed,’ as they passed in the corridor. I thought, ‘That’s nice. I’d do that for my sisters,’ but I had to admit I noticed a sweet little knowing grin pass between them that looked like more than just friendship. I noticed they always walked along very closely, heads almost touching. When they ate at the table they sat closely side by side. It was like they were joined at the hip. Even so, that didn’t prove anything. ‘They sleep together, you know,’ Jenny whispered in my ear one day, in the canteen. ‘What do you mean?’ I asked naïvely. ‘I sleep with my sisters back home sometimes, especially when it’s cold.’ ‘No, not like that,’ said Jenny, losing patience with me finally. ‘You are silly, Mary. It’s not like you and your sisters, it’s sex, you know?’ I didn’t know. Not at all. What was she getting at? ‘Sex? With women? How?’ I couldn’t get my head round it at all. How on earth would that work? Sweet Jesus, I thought to myself, I had only just really got to grips with understanding heterosexual love-making, and seeing erect penises, although I hadn’t ‘done it’ myself yet.

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