A Nurse and Mother

'Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman gives to another and not the chilly facial movement from Matrons of old. "e;Do you think you would be able to work 9 to 3.30?"e; For a moment I couldn't think at all. There seemed something not quite right in being paid for so little labour.'At the end of the Second World War, as husbands came back to Civvy Street their wives had the luxury o...