Expectations of a pregnant woman in relation to her treatment.

dear Noel Coward. Then I played in Macbeth. I was the apparition and Duncan's child. I had, of course, to be killed, and it was funny when as the apparition wearing a silken veil, and with my throat gashed, the veil caught fire at the cauldron and had to be quenched by the witches. Ha, Ha! Those were the times." I declined a cigarette, pointing out with some regret that I had given them up. "Yes, you lose something, and I suppose you gain something. Smoking is a peculiar habit. It is not really a pleasure other than in a negative sense. Colette, that superb creature, put it so well; she said, smoking really minimises discomfort-if you are bored and smoke, you become a little less bored; if you are nervous and tense, you become a little less nervous and tense; if you are in pain, your pain is lessened. Don't you think that is the essence of smoking ?" He went on to discuss Colette. "Oh, how I would love to have met her. I adored her. She was, of course, old when she died-in her 80s, I think. The world waited for Jean Cocteau, her great friend, to speak and satisfy its morbid curiosity about Colette. But, he was so shaken, so upset, and so honourable-he was, as you know, queer, and she, the darling, was everything-that all he could say was: 'We loved as brother and sister, as man and woman, she was my dearest friend.' Don't you think that is beautiful, truly beautiful ?" A little later we reached Le Havre, and I waved goodbye to Micheal and his travelling companions as they set off on their Continental Odyssey. I went on to Paris, haunted by a memory, his words ringing in my mind. No wonder he was so fascinated by Wilde-they were so alike in many ways. Unique artists with a common background-Dublin. May they enjoy pleasant converse in the Elysian fields. What are the reasonable expectations of a pregnant woman in relation to her treatment? A group set up by the National Childbirth Trust has prepared a list of ten items, set out below, which were discussed recently by Lady Micklethwait, president of the NCT, Professor Richard Beard, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Mary's Hospital, London, Miss Kathleen Shaw, divisional nursing officer, the West Middlesex Hospital, and Dr Tony Smith, deputy editor …