The Visit
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flowers, gay curtains hide the marks on the windowsills where the bars used to be. I climb the stairs and go along the endless corridors with the cell-like bedrooms on one side and the open ward on the other. More visitors today, wives are going home for Bank Holiday and husbands have brought suitcases... Grandma holds up a baby to his mother: 'Hasn't he grown! You'll be home soon, Jean shuffles out from the tables and holds out her podgy hands in welcome. 'I've got a visitor!' she shouts, very loud, for she is stone deaf. She has been in hospital for fifteen years and has no relatives. I bring out her birthday present. She looks spellbound at the handkerchief in its cellophane case. 'Don't just keep it, Jean, it's for you to use.' Watching my lips, she shakes her head. 'Too nice,' she says, 'can't spoil it.' Her arm round me with happy possessiveness, she leads me to the white counterpaned dormitory. Mabel sits on the edge of her bed and pushes back her long, dark hair with hands that tremble incessantly. Jean has gone, she helps in the kitchen. Mabel is under sedatives, she moves and speaks slowly, and there are long silences.
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