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Never before in her three years ' hospital training had she seen her arch-enemy , the Superintendent , so utterly disarmed of irascible temper and arrogant dignity , and the sight perplexed and maddened her at one and the same moment . `` But I wo n't 'S -- sh -- S -- sh ' ! '' Desperately she jerked her curly blonde head in the direction of the clock on the wall . `` Here it 's four o'clock now ! '' she cried . `` And in less than four hours you 're going to try and make me graduate -- and go out into the world -- God knows where -- and charge innocent people twenty-five dollars a week and washing , likelier than not , mind you , for these hands , '' she gestured , `` that do n't co-ordinate at all with this face , '' she grimaced , `` but with the face of one of the House Doctors -- or the Senior Surgeon -- or even you -- who may be way off in Kamchatka -- when I need him most ! '' she finished with a confused jumble of accusation and despair .