Careful What You Wish For (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Bridie gave a low moan of despair. ‘Sorry, sister!’ she said, eyes lowered. ‘I just … forgot.’ Ruth looked over to see Bridie quickly change her pen from her left hand to her right. ‘Forgot?’ ‘Yes, sister.’ ‘Well, then, we must help you remember! Out the front at once.’ ‘Oh please, sister, I won’t do it again! I promise.’ ‘Out the front, please!’ Shamefaced, Bridie clambered up from her desk and walked slowly to the front of the class. The rest of the girls watched as enormous, blotchy-faced Sister Gregory pulled a grubby old piece of canvas out of her desk drawer. She grabbed Bridie’s left hand, pushed it up behind her back and tied it there by wrapping the canvas around her wrist and knotting the ends around the girl’s neck. Ruth was completely dumbfounded. What was going on? ‘Well, doesn’t Bridie look nice, girls!’ the nun chortled and turned Bridie around for the rest of the class to see. ‘Believe me, by the end of the year she won’t even know that she has a left hand!’ This brought a titter of polite laughter from the class, but Ruth was pleased to see that the vast majority weren’t impressed.
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