– Marie is the head cleaner at the hospital. She serves as the narrator’s supervisor, and often speaks to her in a cold, harsh manner. Though she is intent upon upholding the matron’s policies, her own work ethic appears to be lacking. The narrator finds Marie reading with her feet up in the storeroom on her first day, and later appears annoyed by her hypocrisy when Marie angrily scolds the narrator for abandoning her work to chat with Mr. Moreton.
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Down in the kitchen the other cleaners will be pouring their cups of tea out of the urn now, Marie remarking coolly on my absence, and Matron will be waiting for us, I am certain, at the nurses' station, in the no-man's-land of the hospital's thermostatically cool interior, its sterilised world of hard surfaces, wiped clean and blameless. Someone else's jurisdiction now.
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Marie Quotes in Laminex and Mirrors
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Down in the kitchen the other cleaners will be pouring their cups of tea out of the urn now, Marie remarking coolly on my absence, and Matron will be waiting for us, I am certain, at the nurses' station, in the no-man's-land of the hospital's thermostatically cool interior, its sterilised world of hard surfaces, wiped clean and blameless. Someone else's jurisdiction now.
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