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CHAPTER IV — TWO WOMEN DIE
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It goes without saying that Alvina Houghton did not make her fortune as a maternity1 nurse. Being her father's daughter, we might almost expect that she did not make a penny. But she did—just a few pence. She had exactly four cases—and then no more.
The reason is obvious. Who in Woodhouse was going to afford a two-guinea nurse, for a confinement2? And who who was going to engage Alvina Houghton, even if they were ready to stretch their purse-strings? After all, they all knew her as Miss Houghton, with a stress on the Miss, and they could not conceive of her as Nurse Houghton. Besides, there seemed something positively3 indecent in technically4 engaging one who was so much part of themselves. They all preferred either a simple mid-wife, or a nurse procured5 out of the unknown by the doctor.
If Alvina wanted to make her fortune—or even her living—she should have gone to a strange town. She was so advised by every one she knew. But she never for one moment reflected on the advice. She had become a maternity nurse in order to practise in Woodhouse, just as James Houghton had purchased his elegancies to sell in Woodhouse. And father and daughter alike calmly expected Woodhouse demand to rise to their supply. So both alike were defeated in their expectations.
For a little while Alvina flaunted6 about in her nurse's uniform. Then she left it off. And as she left it off she lost her bounce, her colour, and her flesh. Gradually she shrank back to the old, slim, reticent7 pallor, with eyes a little too large for her face. And now it seemed her face was a little too long, a little gaunt. And in her civilian8 clothes she seemed a little dowdy
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